What is creativity???

What is creativity.

“ creativity is a puzzle , a paradox some say a mystery”.

(Boden, 1994, p.22)

“The word "creativity" derives from the Latin creare: to make and the Greek Krainein: to fulfil... We use our imaginations to " make up" something new and valuable, thus transforming what is into something better. The creator takes the old and changes it into the new”.

(Young, 1985, p.1)

Born June 14 1946. became a billionaire during 1980s Despite

looming housing woes. Now other builders pay him millions to license

"Trump" brand. “Trump” has countless real estate all over the

world including : Florida, Las Vegas and Dubai. According to Forbes in 2008, trump is worth $

3 billion.

Elton john

Born March 25, 1947, Pinner, Middlesex, England

Song writer, singerAfter studying for six years, he left school with the intention of breaking into the music businessDwight began playing piano at the age of four, and when he was 11, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music.

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born March 28, 1986. New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in

2003. Singles usual chart toppers – “just dance” and

“poker face” attained top 10 status on the billboards.

“bad romance” and “telephone” enabled her to embark on the monster ball tour just months after her fame ball tour.

“born this way” fastest selling single in iTunes history – 1 million downloads in just 5 days.

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

Learned to play the piano at the age of 4.

Wrote first piano ballad at age 13. Started performing at open mike nights

at 14. Left handed.

Influences.

Lady Gaga.

Elton John.

Amy winehouse.

David bowie.

Madonna.

Queen.Michael Jackson.

Did someone say an “Egg”?

• 13th of February 2011 – 53rd Grammys.

• Starlet spent 3 hours to “get into character”.

• Incubation??? Prelude to born this way.

“Baby I was born this way”.

• New single – celebrates the differences in all of us – Asian, straight, black,

bisexual, white, homosexual .• Special significance to the LGBT

community. • Music video celebrates the human

sexuality.

Historical overview of creativity.

Creativity may be seen in some of the earliest creations of humans – statues and cave paintings.

Paintings were of animals but were highly distorted.

So, David leww Williams re- evaluated cave paintings as recreations of shamanic hallucinations.

Ingredients needed for a successful shamanic

experience.Shamanic tribe.

Darkness. Quiet. Uninterrupted

sleep.

Lady gaga. Had limited source

of light – in egg 3 hours before show.

Quiet – she had to get into character.

Quiet time to herself.

psychoanalytic

born on May 6, 1856, in Freiberg, Moraviaformulated ideas about the origin and treatment of mental illness In 1885, went to Paris to study under Jean Martin Charcot, a famous neurologist. Charcot was working with patients who suffered from a condition now called hysteria. Some of these people appeared to be blind or paralyzed, but they actually had no physical defects. Charcot found that their physical symptoms could be relieved through hypnosis. returned to Vienna in 1886 and began to work extensively with hysterical patients

Creativity is a state of mind or in other words it lays on the eye of the beholder.

Creativity