What is Creativity:
The creativityalso called original thought, creative thinkinginventiveness, constructive imagination or divergent thinking, is the ability to create, innovate, generate new ideas or concepts, or new associations between known ideas and concepts, which usually lead to new conclusions, solve problems and produce original and valuable solutions. Creativity is the production of an idea or concept, a creation or a discovery that is new, original, useful and that satisfies both its creator and others for some period.
Creativity or original thinking is a mental process that is born from the imagination and encompasses several intertwined mental processes. These processes have not been completely deciphered by physiology. The quality of creativity can be assessed by the final result and this is a process that develops over time and is characterized by originality, adaptability and its possibilities of concrete realization.
The human brain has two hemispheres with different competencies between them and it seems that this difference in competencies is exclusive to humans. Although creativity also occurs in many animal species, their brains are totally different from ours, because they are specialized in responding to visual, olfactory, etc. stimuli and needs.
See also Competencies.
Creative capacity and personality
Although there are highly creative individuals and others relatively non-creative, we are all born with a creative capacity that can later be stimulated or not. Therefore, creativity can be developed and improved, as can all human capabilities. There are many techniques to develop and increase creative capacity, for example, brainstorming (in groups), lateral thinking, mind mapping, selecting ideas, quantifying ideas, classifying ideas, concept maps and Ishikawa diagrams.
Intelligence is not the difference between those who are highly creative and those who are relatively uncreative. The personality traits of the creative individual are what differentiate them from others. In general, it has been proven that a creative person or a genius needs long periods of solitude, tends to be introverted, and has little time for social relationships and also for what he or she calls the trivialities of everyday life. Creative people tend to be highly intuitive and very interested in the abstract meaning of the outside world as well as being very sensitive.
Broadly speaking, two types of creative people can be distinguished, artists (musicians, writers, painters, sculptors) and scientists, although, as has already been stated, there is not much relationship between creativity and intellectual quotient (IQ). . Often, genius, in this type of people, is related to and confused with madness.