Week 3 Creativity-Personal Reflection

Creativity is a mental and social process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. –http://www.wikipedia.org/

Last Tuesday, we discussed about the ‘creativity’ in the class. This diccusion not only changed my misconceptions on ‘creativity’ but also gave me a brand new definition and concept. Mr Yap mentioned about ‘attitude’ in the class, this is what I strongly agree with. From the definition above which I found in wikipedia, we know that the creativity is about discovery new ideas and concepts. So, the problem is HOW?

Attitude is the answer. You must have the right attitude instead of passionate in order to think in a new way. Train your attitude everyday, on every small matters. Just like what Mr Yap said, why don’t you choose a different way to school? Ya, there is no ‘must’ in eveything. Of course, don’t confuse between the crazy and creative. You can wearing in different style but not wearing the underwear outside.

Develop the attitude on doing everythings differently then when you face some problems, you will able to solve it in a differently way, and that is what creativity all about.

The video above is the professor Ken Robbison’s speech on ‘Do school kill creativity?’ Well, let’s take the example of little girl discovered her talent on dancing. I think not eveyone can discover their own ability or talent in that age, even their parents. So, what you can do? Let the child test everything untill they like the so called talent? What if mistake? What if they don’t like after some time? Keep changing?

If the school have the right attitude on helping childrens find their own abilty then the problem solved. The school should provide every possible choices according to different child but not keep telling the children you must study in order to survive! You must get A in order to success !

Mr Yap's lecture was fun and interesting, i like the way he gave lecture, at least i will not felt sleepy. thanks.