The definition of Creativity is "the ability to transcend ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, ect." It is unknown if some people are born with more creativity than others but there is correlations within parts of the brains having stronger connections to one another and those individuals being more creative. These being the frontal lobes (responsible for idea generation) and temporal lobes (responsible for evaluating and editing ideas). Furthermore there is a pattern of creative people being more likely to have mood disorders like depression and bipolar disorder and that schizophrenic individuals are often more creative. Famous painter Vincent Van Gough is suspected to have been suffering from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder which backed up the theory of creative individuals being more likely to suffer from these conditions.
Creativity is an essential skill in most fields including things such as engineering and business. It is believed a variety of elements can affect creativity. One of which is that the person has creative freedom and freedom in their lifestyle and don't have to conform to certain ideas and can create their own. Another is to have exploratory nature where an individual possibly more so at a young age will go out and explore areas and experience new things. Autonomy is another good attribute to have probably because the person will willingly go out of there way to try and create things.
For me creativity is something that can be nurtured, more so at a young age where we are not to stuck in our ways. Travelling is a great thing to experience and people should probably visit more countries and places than they would usually do rather than the seaside towns where just go and get drunk for a week.
A good understanding of the natural world would also be very beneficial as natures designs are the best and many can take inspiration and knowledge from that. As fora more artistic stand point I think reading more books can be beneficial as it allows the brain to create its own imagery.
There are cases of young geniuses. In some cases they can be autistic and in turn will learn there preferred skill more quickly. Supposedly a lot of the greatest minds were partially autistic and this allowed them to excel in their fields. But for most great artists they are taught from a young age. Even with the recent case of Kieron Williamson is his talent just brought on by himself or has he been tutored. From what I can tell he has been allowed to draw and paint much more than most children his age and has been tutored by a local artist. Not only that he visited beautiful places like Cornwall to gain inspiration which helps his creativity. He still makes mistakes in his work and due to his young age has possibly been over hyped.
Creativity to me is something that can be nurtured and crafted. Anyone can become a great artist or musician it just takes hard work but sometimes people are hindered by their creative level and that is why there are some people that are better than others.
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