So what does Creativity mean??

"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."

--James Russell Lowell

"Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding."
--Loris Malaguzzi

According to Chambers dictionary, the definiton of creativity is "state or quality of being creative", which doesn't tell us much. The word "create" is defined as meaning, amongst other things:

"to bring into being or form out of nothing; to bring into being by force of imagination"

Creativity is the bringing into being of something which did not exist before, either as a product, a process or a thought.

You would be demonstrating creativity if you:

• Invent something which has never existed before
• Invent something which exists elsewhere but you are not aware of
• Invent a new process for doing something
• Reapply an existing process or product into a new or different market
• Develop a new way of looking at something (bringing a new idea into existence)
• Change the way someone else looks at something

In fact, we are all creative every day because we are constantly changing the ideas which we hold about the world about us. Creativity does not have to be about developing something new to the world, it is more to do with developing something new to ourselves. When we change ourselves, the world changes with us, both in the way that the world is affected by our changed actions and in the changed way that we experience the world.

Creativity can be used to make products, processes and services better and it can be used to create them in the first place. It is expected that increasing your creativity will help you, your organization and your customers become happier through improvements in your quality and quantity of output.

reference: http://www.brainstorming.co.uk/tutorials/creativethinking.html

Is creativity important?

ermm..i think ya! I think creativity is one of the most important things in the world because if each person did not have creativity then you would see everything the same. Each person has there own type of creativity and that is why there are unique art, movies, clothing, hair styles, etc. Be creative !