Historical examination of creativity

Historical Examination of Creativity. 

 

1. What traits made them creative?

Different country have a different kind of cretivity history. For instance, in Greece creativity, there is a Temple of Poseidon, Calauria. 

-Uniqueness

-Beauty of art

The official religion inspired themes for artistic expressions and justifications for temples, statues and plays devoted the the glories of the god. 

 2. What environmental conditions existed?

The needs:
For the mosque and temple, they need some place for some religion activities and that is why they built it. 
Easiness:
The purpose of creating something is often related to make our life easier. For example, the purpose of creating transportations.
Speed:
They need to be faster. This is the time where is the invention of the telephone, car and so on.

3. What was the process of creativity?

1. Identify the problems and needs. They know their problems and needs in order to know what is to build or create.  
2. Produce the idea. What is the suitable building or things to be built or created.
3. Try and error. They do not afraid to fail. Creativity is about taking a big risk.
4. Do it with passion. They love to do what they love to do. 
5. Response and feedback. What do people say about their products/things/building? Is it useful or not? 
6. Improvement. 

What kind of environment, situation etc., would make you to become a creative/inventive/innovative person?

Ask yourself, what makes you to become a creative / inventive / innovative person?

There are a lot of ways and means to let our creativity flow. We just have to use our minds to imagine fresh ways or put together already existing ideas and innovate, to make our company click with our target clients. And with new technology to help us, business life is simpler and easier.

Lots of people mistakenly think that creativity is related to genes and that some people are born to innovate while others aren't but that's completely wrong.
By altering your life style and making some changes to your believe system you can become more creative and innovative even if you currently lack them both.
Without being creative and innovative you will become stuck in a fixed life routine and you might never be able to solve your problems since you will always be trying the same methods that doesn't work.

Decide now that you are going to dedicate one day each week or 1 hour each day for the sake of becoming more creative and innovate.
Once this time is dedicated you should work on applying the previous advice and as the time passes you will discover that you are becoming more creative.

"The PC is dead, long live the tablet" <-- What does this tell us about the process of invention and innovation?

Here's what I saw in PC World:

• Tablets (iPads, iPad clones,Kindles) - huge crowds in these aisles, I could barely get to see the products, much less try them out. Teenage girls are dreaming of iPads in their Christmas sacks this year .
• Laptops - a bit of interest.
• Desktop PC's - only tumbleweed in this aisle !

What does this mean for us? It means that we all need to be focusing our efforts on monetising tablets. The public has spoken - the future of the Internet is the tablet .

PC - Powerful and dependable workhorse (depending on which PC you have) to get all kinds of tasks accomplished, to play games, etc.

Laptop - Powerful workhorse to get things done in a mobile capacity (depending on which laptop you have)... but limited due to battery consumption.

Tablet - Fun entertainment device (watching movies, videos, playing app based games, etc.) and to take care of minor tasks (note taking, emailing, browsing the internet, etc.).

Smartphone - The obvious reasons and to take care of minor tasks.

Also mobile of course, but most people buy mobile phones in smaller stores.

And if you trade stocks, short Microsoft and Dell, long Apple and Amazon!

I think tablets are going to take over the world very soon.

I'm just waiting on the iPad adding a proper operating system, lots of memory, storage space, and a proper keyboard attachment.

Then goodbye laptops, hello tablets. 

Sir Ken Robinson ~ "Do Schools Kill Creativity?"

Mr Yap had shown us a video about a speech by Sir Ken Robinson on TEDTalks, entitled ‘Do Schools Kill Creativity?’ during our lecture.

During this time, i felt very sleepy because i had to listen a speech from Sir Ken Robinson on TEDTalks reality show.

Do schools kill creativity?
Hahaha. . . of course, NOT .

Schools develop and teach their students all about creativity and be creative even in educations or sports.
In schools, all the students know how to changes their writing to be more neat and easy to other peoples understand their hand writings.
In schools, they also learn many good things and bad things. It's all about their creativity.
What makes they becomes creative is when people faced a problem may sometimes give it to temptation. They will do anything with their creativity to solve their problems.

Here is the link attachment of the video of a speech by Sir Ken Robinson on TEDTalks Reality Show.

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iG9CE55wbtY
- http://blog.ted.com/2006/06/27/sir_ken_robinso/

Five words related to creativity, five words unrelated to creativity

Creativity was a better predictor of dishonesty than intelligence.

• 5 Words Related to Creativity
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• -Manufacture
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• -Groupthink
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• -Imaginative
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• -Suffocate
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• -Excogitation
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• 5 Words Unrelated to Creativity
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• -Serious
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• -Blur
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• -Mainstream
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• -Mundane
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• -Star

Functions of the Curious Object

This object can be anything if we can imagine how much it can be. Such as the contact lense holder, a stamp pad, table, vase and the bench.

If we want it to be a contact lense holder, it must to be a pair of this object.
If we want it to be a stamp pad, the bigger base must be put at the bottom and stamp it on a piece of paper.
If we want it to be a table, we just need to make sure that the bigger basement must be on top. So that we can do anything on it like drawing, writing and so on.
If we want it to be a vase or flower pot, we just need to put the flower with soil in the cylinder hole of this object.
If we want it to be a bench, we have to put it like a table situation and then, we can sit on it.

Why Did the Titanic Hit the Iceberg

• There are many kinds of dangerous icebergs.

  There are many different kinds of icebergs. Brash ice, for instance, is a collection of floating ice and icebergs no more than 2 meters (6.5 feet) across. A tabular berg is a flat-topped iceberg that usually forms as ice breaks directly off an ice sheet or ice shelf.

  The ice below the water is dangerous to ships. The sharp, hidden ice can easily tear a hole in the bottom of a ship. So, my conclusion is the iceberg was totally visible to see for far.

Why Did the Titanic Hit the Iceberg

• Iceberg can also be huge

  Icebergs can also be huge. Some icebergs near Antarctica can be as big as Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. As little as one-eighth of an iceberg is visible above the water. Most of the mass of an iceberg lies below the surface of the water.

  In 1912, the Titanic, a large British ocean liner on its way to New York, struck an iceberg and sank in Iceberg Alley. More than 1,500 people drowned. Soon after the Titanic sank, an International Ice Patrol was established to track icebergs and warn ships. That patrol continues today.

   

Why Did the Titanic Hit the Iceberg

• Because an Iceberg's Bulk is Underwater

  As much as 85% of an iceberg's bulk is underwater, and because of the strong currents that can push on the underside of it, it's not uncommon to see an iceberg moving against a strong wind. 

  Bergs are composed almost entirely of fresh water, and as the iceberg melts, its centre of gravity can change, causing it to roll over to a new possition. 

  The part of the newly exposed surface appears darker than the rest of the ice, and are known as 'blue bergs'. It's believed that the Iceberg Titanic struck was a blue berg, making it very difficult to spot at night.