Creativity is a unique and necessary element in the evolution of the human mind. Creativity teaches people about the art of humanity, and about finding inspiration in all of their surroundings. It teaches one to use these gifts to do great wonders. It is an important requirement for a person to really be able to grasp the meaning of life. Creativity allows one to put to good use the talents they’ve been given. Every parent wants their children to excel at everything they try in life, but some unknowingly stifle their children’s creativity and other artistic motives. It makes one wonder what really brings creativity out in a person? What inspires a person to show the world what he or she can do?
During his presentation, Ken Robinson’s explanation of how schools tamper with creativity in children was astounding. In reality, parents, friends, and the whole world refuse to accept failure. People look at failure as something disgusting. However, it’s not an extremely bad thing to fail at something when a person can actually learn from their past mistakes. Schools always emphasize that failure is bad, but without failure a person can’t really learn. It appears that in school students are eager to know the correct answer to questions, but as they progress to middle school and high school, they become more hesitant to voice their opinions for fear of being wrong, which leaves them afraid to fail.
In her presentation, Amy Tan talked about how people are equipped and born with talent, or how people may get their talents from past lives. One of the principles for creativity is influence. For example, in her slide show, Amy Tan questioned why things happened, for what reasons, and what are the effects or outcomes? Amy Tan describes her views on creativity by using her own past, including where she has been. She shares this is how she gets her thoughts whenever she is writing one of her many books.
The world needs people who are different from others and are gifted with different talents and views. The world now has such things as clothes, cars, electricity, and technology because of different inventions. We have many inventions because of the creative minds of men and women willing to make some sort of difference in the world. What we are given as creative gifts, we should use to help all. As with all things that come from humanity, creativity can have both its positive contributions as well as its negative contributions. Some people use their creativity to bring good to the world, such as laser surgery, organ transplants, or cancer research. On the other hand, some use their creativity to bring harm to the world. For example, some people would rather use technology to make nuclear bombs to destroy others in the world.
(This is part 1, sorry the same thing happen with what it did Lillian)