How does creativity originate?
Do you know creativity is a skill that can be nurtured, or like many people out there you still believe that it is a mysterious process only possessed by very special people? Many people are curious about the origins of that creative spark that is the base of a creative piece of work. But whenever they are asked about the origin or the source of creativity, the most probable answer is: ‘something mystical’ i.e. people believe that it comes from some mystical place. But this is not true, Creativity is just like anything else, it’s a rules-based action we are able to perform subconsciously — through directed thought. There are many ways through which ideas for new and innovative things can be generated. Whenever people connect the dots by looking backward, they might be able to make curious combinations by connecting those dots in a unique and innovative way that no one could do before. Because ideas are the sum total of all experiences i.e. ideas are born out of experiences, so at the base of creative thinking there are those experiences that a person captures. So, by looking backward and by connecting the dots, a person might observe something atypical and this is where creative ideas originate from.
Experiences as a source to creativity: Our idea for anything depends upon the experiences of our life, so our creativity is the product of the experiences captured. Neuroscientific studies have not specified any part of the brain that solely functions for creativity, different regions of the brain work together to support the creative thinking process. Moreover, creative thinking skills are not so genetic, they can be learned and depend upon many different things internal as well as external like your experiences captured. Our brain makes connections for our experiences that we capture every day, the more and more we experience in an area, the stronger neural connection our brain would be able to make in that area that enables us to come up with new, unique and original ideas in that area.
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