what is creativity?

Answer 1

It's the act of being creative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity

As quoted:
Creativity (or creativeness) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts. The products of creative thought (sometimes referred to as divergent thought) usually have both originality and appropriateness. Although intuitively a simple phenomenon, it is in fact quite complex. It has been studied from the perspectives of behavioural psychology, social psychology, psychometrics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, philosophy, history, economics, design research, business, and management, among others. The studies have covered everyday creativity, exceptional creativity and even artificial creativity. Unlike many phenomena in science, there is no single, authoritative perspective or definition of creativity. Unlike many phenomena in psychology, there is no standardized measurement technique.

Creativity has been attributed variously to divine intervention, cognitive processes, the social environment, personality traits, and chance ("accident," "serendipity"). It has been associated with genius, mental illness and humour. Some say it is a trait we are born with; others say it can be taught with the application of simple techniques. Although popularly associated with art and literature, it is also an essential part of innovation and invention and is important in professions such as business, economics, architecture, industrial design, science and engineering.

Despite, or perhaps because of, the ambiguity and multi-dimensional nature of creativity, entire industries have been spawned from the pursuit of creative ideas and the development of creativity techniques. This mysterious phenomenon, though undeniably important and constantly visible, seems to lie tantalizingly beyond the grasp of scientific investigation

Answer 2

Creativity (or creativeness) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts. The products of creative thought (sometimes referred to as divergent thought) usually have both originality and appropriateness. Although intuitively a simple phenomenon, it is in fact quite complex. It has been studied from the perspectives of behavioural psychology, social psychology, psychometrics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, philosophy, history, economics, design research, business, and management, among others. The studies have covered everyday creativity, exceptional creativity and even artificial creativity. Unlike many phenomena in science, there is no single, authoritative perspective or definition of creativity. Unlike many phenomena in psychology, there is no standardized measurement technique.

Creativity has been attributed variously to divine intervention, cognitive processes, the social environment, personality traits, and chance ("accident," "serendipity"). It has been associated with genius, mental illness and humour. Some say it is a trait we are born with; others say it can be taught with the application of simple techniques. Although popularly associated with art and literature, it is also an essential part of innovation and invention and is important in professions such as business, economics, architecture, industrial design, science and engineering.

Despite, or perhaps because of, the ambiguity and multi-dimensional nature of creativity, entire industries have been spawned from the pursuit of creative ideas and the development of creativity techniques. This mysterious phenomenon, though undeniably important and constantly visible, seems to lie tantalizingly beyond the grasp of scientific investigation.

"Creativity, it has been said, consists largely of re-arranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know." George Keller

Answer 3

This is one of the most difficult things to resolve. It appear that at least part of creativity is the ability to visualize things in a new way. This can sometimes be had by putting two unrelated items together and realizing that a connection could be present.

The process of putting two or more seemingly unrelated items together is called juxtaposition. It appears that another part of creativity is not just juxtaposition, but the ability to see a new, viable arrangement of those things.

Some types of creativity can be simulated in a computer by using random numbers, and then a filter algorithm to drop out completely illogical combinations.

Answer 4

Creativity (or creativeness) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts. The products of creative thought (sometimes referred to as divergent thought) usually have both originality and appropriateness. Although intuitively a simple phenomenon, it is in fact quite complex. It has been studied from the perspectives of behavioural psychology, social psychology, psychometrics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, philosophy, history, economics, design research, business, and management, among others. The studies have covered everyday creativity, exceptional creativity and even artificial creativity. Unlike many phenomena in science, there is no single, authoritative perspective or definition of creativity. Unlike many phenomena in psychology, there is no standardized measurement technique.

Answer 5

You have to unlearn what you know, and just play. Break rules, have a vision, do the impossible, fly, cry, dance, sing, barf.

And people? people will HATE you. They will call you names, they will put you down, they will ostracize you, they will punch you in the arm so hard you'll cry. You'll go without sleep, you hair will grow long and unkempt, you'll stop bathing, your friends will forget you, you'll smash holes in the wall, anything, ANYTHING for that ONE GREAT ...

Until you get rich and famous. Then they'll stand around smiling, drinking the wine, smoking the ... whatever, and waiting for some cool to fall on their head.

It's not for everyone. Ever notice how those folks HIDE when they get done? UH HUH !!!

Looka eye. ALWAYS LOOKA EYE!

Answer 6

creativity is when your being unique, not following up on what everyone else but thinking of a cool new idea all on your own.

Answer 7

creativity is something that you have a talent that is common but you are good at. take as an example i am good at drawing. it is not something i lack at and i am good at. that is the definition i could come up with so there!

Answer 8

go to yahoogroups and look up truest_group its a creativity think tank and thank Jesus u got the chance too to be creative yesssssssss

Answer 9

Something you lack.

Jus' Kidding!

Its being creative and inventive.

Answer 10

creativity is creating an avatar, cuz i usually don't answer questions of ppl not having them,neither do i pick their answers as best :P