True Creativity: What Is It and 5 Ways to Foster Creativity in Your Kids
Hint: It’s not about being arty.
The results of a Google image search for the term “creative person” are very colorful. Literally. There are brightly-dressed people holding paintbrushes and pens. There are rainbows of color bursting from heads, chests, and sketches of brains.
One could say the overall results are “arty”. But when did the universe-encompassing noun, adjective, and verb: “creative” become synonymous with the word “art”?
By definition, creativity involves the act of making something. An act of creation. Art is far from the only thing humans make but I bet you’ve never thought of Marie Curie as a creative.
Have you ever flicked a light switch and contemplated the phenomenal creativity that birthed electricity? Or is that rather ‘too sciency’ in your mind. Consider Einstein then. You’re probably thinking intelligence, genius, inventor. Maybe E = mc2 or wild white hair. Why aren’t you including this physicist’s extraordinary levels of creative thinking, discovery, and action?
Thinking Inside The Box
“She’s a creative.”
Depending on your upbringing, this statement has the potential to make you nervous or envious.
