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I've just found this video and found it interesting because he talks about creativity. Did you lose yours? Were you more creative when child?? did school kill your creativity??

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_ ... ivity.html

School did kill mine a bit, but thats life...

Also i think we lose out on time to be creative, or we forget to... but people ARE creative, they just dont see it that way...

I look at my desk I see a sheep, a cow, a elephant, a duck· a christmas tree, a bobblehead (fallout3!) a glass thermomitor with the glas blalls with liquid in them, a pair of pliers, a wooly hat, a cactus inside a keyring, some scicors and a screw driver... Is that not creative? I stack my games in a perticuallar order to help me work out what to play( completed stuff at hte bototm, then achievement stuff, then my popultar stuff up top).

As we grow up I think we tend to narrow our view of what is creative, and begin to think of stuff as "messy" rather than creative. I have a creative mind and I do allow it to flow sometimes - also the phonecalls I get from job agencys cause me to create some rather impressive bits of art on post-it notes as they continue to tell me im the perfect candidiate and that they would love to forward my CV for concideration...

th limits of my creativity come down to making small animals out of bus and train tickets.

im thinking about writing a book in a different style though.

i could reccomend some less than legal remidies

i like to think of myself as creative- id like to use my artistic talents as a career someday.

i used to have a webcomic, currently im writing a book, and of course i enjoy making halloween costumes

I think school probably encouraged me if anything. It's life that saps my will to be creative.

RYAN WHITELAW wrote:th limits of my creativity come down to making small animals out of bus and train tickets.

im thinking about writing a book in a different style though.

what would you write about??

I'd say I a fairly creative whenever I get the chnce, I will happilly spend the evening knocking out some origami or carving pumpkins (at halloween) etc....so yeah I'd say I am

Maybe people who play games are more creative than the rest.

Brooke wrote:Maybe people who play games are more creative than the rest.

Maybe the people who make computer games are more creative than those who play them.

I teach art history/theory at degree level and this question of creativity really interests me. There was a book published about a decade ago called 'Creative Britain' by New Labourite Chris Smith. It basically argued that our economy has a large stake in creativity and the creative industries and believed that creativity can be taught. In my experience the more you teach people how to be creative, the less creative and spontaneous they become. When I compare the art work of first years with third years, I often find that although the third years' work tends to be more 'critically informed', it has lost something, perhaps a sense of innocence. The fact is that some people are creative and have a desire to creative and express themselves in a variety of ways, and others don't.

Do we really create anything? Isn't the net gain usually a deficit?

meu02136 wrote:Do we really create anything? Isn't the net gain usually a deficit?

That nihilistic statement is in start contrast to the pretty rainbow unicorn in your Live sig. Ah, the dualism of man!

But to answer your point, I'd say we're all going to be dead in 70ish years anyway, so why the hell not be creative? All you're losing is your time. If it takes 5 years to paint a masterpiece, the net gain to yourself may be in the minus figures, but could be balanced out by the critical appreciation of your work.

Critical appreciation? What units do you measure that in?

It is a pretty unicorn isn't? I've called him Nigel.

meu02136 wrote:Critical appreciation? What units do you measure that in?

It is a pretty unicorn isn't? I've called him Nigel.

The same units you managed to invoke minus figures out of a net gain from.

Yes, he's lovely. He makes me want to whip out a nice brush and ribbons for his mane.