Watching young children, you can see that their fantasies are much brighter and more colorful than adults. Their creativity is a constant inventing, invention, sometimes they are simply shocking with their far from childish opinions and talents. According to researchers, preschool children have the greatest creativity, but with the growth of social influence, this ability, unfortunately, is lost, and in its place comes stereotyped and limited. It is interesting that today this feature is more and more appreciated, much attention is paid to its development. What do they mean by this term? What is its difference from creativity, and why is it so important in the life of a modern person?
Translated from Latin, “creativity” is “creative”, “creation”. You can interpret this term as the ability to create something new and original with the help of
creative abilities, which include flexibility of thinking, developed imagination, independence, etc. In fact, this word is very close to the concept of "creativity", which denotes the process of human activity, as a result of which spiritual or material values are created, unique in their kind.
So what is the difference between these concepts? The difference is that their meaning is not at all the same. Creativity, for example, is used more in a spiritual and sublime sense (among artists, poets, musicians, etc.), while creativity is more a characteristic of human qualities that are important in business (among marketers, designers, brand managers and etc.), and therefore materiality takes place here more. In a serious business company, people who have done a good new ad are more likely to be called a creative group than a creative one.
According to Abraham Maslow, a
well-known psychologist, creativity is a creative direction that is characteristic of all people from birth, but disappears under the influence of the environment. However, it became known that this skill can be
developed by training (riddles for ingenuity, puzzles, modeling situations). Thus, developing the ability to
think outside the box, learning to enjoy the little things and notice the invisible, a person develops a creative attitude to everything, becomes free from the boundaries established by society, which in turn leads to an increase in energy, which is aimed at creating interesting and new ideas. You can even say that creativity allows you to be more receptive to situations and see a variety of options for solving the tasks.
Recently, the meaning of this word began to express more originality and non-standard. Against the background of the fact that it is becoming increasingly difficult to surprise people, some do not lose hope to stand out, come up with creative drawings, paintings and other unprecedented creations. For example, drawings of paper, pictures of vegetables and fruits, keyboard keys. Creative clothing also makes me amazed that its material can consist of ordinary food and other unusual materials that combine in unimaginable combinations and colors.