you’re welcome, friend!

You used to make me cry, Matt. From all your jokes. 😀

Love this, Fran. My speed, for sure.

Creativity, we know, is the source, the beginning, right? Some say it is the initial spark, but where does that spark come from? Something or someone, right? Or maybe from nothing at all… empty space if you will? Unlikely. So is the spark the source? Maybe it is the steel thought and flint of ideas being smacked together with or without a purpose that causes the spark?

Is it the question or the answer that tells… or both? Creativity can be a beautiful mistake or a horribly purposed result. Creativity can be the result of simple or complex matter that just lies at the bottom of a pool of convoluted ideas and thoughts that float to the surface and are noticed by passerby’s surgical senses… forced into cohesion from an incohesive state. Or is Creativity the air bubble of Purpose that brings that matter to the surface? So then, Creativity is Purpose or Purposed, right?

Wait. Let’s backup. How did we come across these thoughts and ideas in the first place? Could the answer be…experience? Are newborn thinkers Creative? They could certainly use more time to find out, right?

But wait (again). We can’t stop there either because where did the air bubble of Purpose come from?

Uggh! This is never-ending. Or should I say… never beginning?

Hold on. Yes. Here it comes. I think I got it now!

Ahem!

Creativity is the means by which we mirror and mimic the only source… our C R E A T O R whose purpose was to connect us to one another in order that we ultimately connect back to Him and bask in the glow of our journey together. The cool thing is that each one of us has a unique shape from which to work, yet collectively we fit together. Creativity is our calling card or identity… our fingerprint. It is our piece to the puzzle of Life.

I’m exhausted. 😉

First of all, I can relate to your initial story here. I lost count how many times you made me cry in your office back in the day…Just kidding.

Here’s my working definition of creativity: Making, expressing or doing something. Period. I was going to add “in a new or different way” but Sonia’s quote here prompted me to remove that part…it doesn’t even have to be “new” or “better” because sometimes it’s not, but it is still creativity.

Sometimes we do something creative and have no idea if it is unique or not. If it has been done before, were we then not being creative? Good question. I like Seth’s answer. It may not work. So we’re still being creative, and those mistakes can lead to greater levels of creativity.

Thanks for the poster.

Matthew

Awesome post! Awesome thoughts on creativity! Thank you! I like to think of creativity as an expression of your art, no matter what you do. I see it as taking the “personal” of personal development and making it your own by realizing your own strengths and passion. I learned and am learning owning your strengths is important. So is practice. Which all works so beautifully with creativity. Plus, there’s no right or wrong, it’s just growing you! And, helping others! At the heart of “personal” development is your creativity.

I’m excited to get to work! Thanks again for an awesome post! I’ve bookmarked it to share and read from beginning to end again and again! There’s a lot of great resources within this post!

Great article.

In my own view, creativity is creating something with a difference that will make a difference in life.

Thanks for this awesome article.

They did a great job on the posters, Tauseef !