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August 21, 2023,
All roses do not have to be red, to be beautiful.
Especially if you see the world through a creative mind.
Creativity brings color, life and excitement to the world.
And your life.
We love sharing personal experiences.
When an associate was in elementary school, a class assignment was to draw animals for a contest. One of his classmates drew a male lion, wearing lipstick.
Later, the adults on the judging committee, laughed hysterically and that kid won the contest.
Now, that is creativity.
One source states, creativity is a characteristic of someone or some process that forms something new and valuable.
Valuable.
We will concentrate on that for a minute.
The movie world is mostly not real. Documentaries aside. Do we agree?
And yet, it is incredibly valuable and filled with creativity. Think of the ways it is so valuable.
It entertains.
It allows us to live out our fantasies.
It allows you to re-live your youth.
It explains history, often vividly.
It teaches important life lessons from differing points of view.
Above all, for us, it allows you to escape. Even if for just 2-3 hours.
That is the power of creative minds.
The modern meaning of creativity in reference to human creation did not emerge until after the age of enlightenment.
The Age of Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe, especially Western Europe, in the 17th and 18th centuries, with global influences and effects.
The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the value of human happiness, the pursuit of knowledge obtained by means of reason and the evidence of the senses, and ideals such as natural law, liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.
That’s a lot. Compare it to the dark ages where creativity was frowned upon.
The Dark Ages is a term for the Early Middle Ages or occasionally the entire Middle Ages, in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire that characterizes it as marked by economic, intellectual and cultural decline.
The concept of a “Dark Age” as a historiographical periodization originated in the 1330s with the Italian scholar Petrarch, who regarded the post-Roman centuries as “dark” compared to the “light” of classical antiquity.
One of the aspects of creative film, that we love, is how they take something often seen one way and show you a completely different side of the same concept, in a very different light.
If you desire to see a creative way that light is shed on the human mind, you should watch the brilliant television series, In Treatment.
In Treatment is an American drama television series for HBO, produced and developed by Rodrigo Garcia, based on the Israeli series BeTipul, created by Hagai Levi, Ori Sivan and Nir Bergman.
The series is about a psychotherapist, 50-something Paul Weston, and his weekly sessions with patients, as well as those with his own therapist at the end of the week.
What we loved about the series, was how it vastly evolved over time.
In the first installment, we really admired Paul’s skillsets and how he worked through his patient’s hidden and complex issues, unearthed them and help solve the problem in unique and believable ways.
He was often challenged and emotionally attacked but exercised great self-control and stayed focused on his job and helped them anyway.
Then came his turn to be a patient.
We loved how the series showed Paul’s deep imperfections and how the therapists that he worked with were not intimidated by him and his reputation, especially Adele, and helped him see what painful future he should pursue.
As you might guess, we have seen many therapist series and movies over the years, including the film Ordinary People, which had a really good one, but none like this one.
They thought outside of the box.
A wonderful creation.
So, in your creativity, think outside of the box.
See the same things in a different light.
Approach things as they are and then ask, if only.
Time for more insight by walking over to the bookstore.
The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker: How to Make Connections Others Don’t Paperback – September 10, 2019
By Dorte Nielsen (Author), Sarah Thurber(Author)
“People who are good at creating ideas are good at seeing connections. Could teaching people to see connections be a way to help them be more creative?
Over the years, there’s a need for a book on creativity that complements the teaching of the creative process and tools and gives you a practical approach to how to enhance your innate ability to think creatively. This book as an opportunity to dispel the myth that creative talent is something possessed by a gifted minority. This is the opportunity to pass on ‘the secret’ of highly creative people to a much wider audience. It’s a chance to give others the knowledge, techniques, and training they need to enhance their own innate creativity and lead the way to fun, fulfillment, invention, innovation, and change.
It’s a unique book that combines a very hands on and practical approach with a solid scholarly foundation.”
We can appreciate that we all have creative talents and abilities. That’s what makes us unique. No one loves what we do, as individuals, in the same way.
Then there is lateral thinking. Have you heard of it?
Lateral thinking is a manner of solving problems using an indirect and creative approach via reasoning that is not immediately obvious. It involves ideas that may not be obtainable using only traditional step-by-step logic.
Lateral thinking has to be distinguished from critical thinking.
Critical thinking is primarily concerned with judging the true value of statements and seeking errors whereas lateral thinking focuses more on the “movement value” of statements and ideas.
A person uses lateral thinking to move from one known idea to new ideas.
One of the most important processes that we find helpful, as a group, is brainstorming. Taking an idea, concept or issue and having everyone in the group insert their approach on how they view it, or as an issue, try and solve it.
The first step in being creative, is, well, wanting to create.
To think differently.
As only you can.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Treatment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking
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