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Everyone of us are born to be creative, are born to have unlimited potential for creating. But as we grow up, we give away more and more of our creative potential. As a child, we lose up to 75% of our creativity. By the time we are 40, we are nearly expressing less than 2% of the measurable creativity we demonstrated as children. Therefore, we must reawaken our ability to be creative with practice and encouragement, which are not familiar to most of us. When you are being creative, you are not necessarily doing something that no one else have done before, yet you are doing something we have never done it before.

But first of all, what is creativity? What is the definition of creativity? Edward de Bono incorporates 3 diverse concepts into his definition of creativity. Firstly, he says, "At the simplest level, creative means bringing into being something, which was not there before." Then he adds, "The new thing must have value," and lastly, it must include the concepts of "unexpectedness and change." Yeah, it is an excellent definition indeed, yet actually, most of us understand creativity in other ways. Children usually define creativity as "doing something fun", because they experienced it when they are doing it like during drawing or playing music. Some other people may not exactly tell the definition of creativity, but it leads them to think of the opposite of creativity. Then the answers immediately begin to flow. Unhappy, unoriginal, boring, routine, blind, outdated, and so on. This shows that how the lack of creativity would affect their daily life. Thus, the presence of creativity would send away sad and miserable conditions. We understand creativity either when we are experiencing it or we feel we have lost it. Creativity is a term, which resists the limits of simple definitions yet it is a concept much wider than any specific application

You can now take our new Creativity Test at home. Print it out and give it a whirl. See how creative you really are, and then share your results at the Discussion page..


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