WHAT IS CREATIVITY?
Understanding creativity will enable you to encourage your family to BE creative—independently, collectively, across different domains, and over time.
Helping children learn to appreciate creativity is akin to giving them a gift that never loses its value.
Why? Because being creative is like tapping into a superpower! It’s a means of taking hold of possibilities to see new things, meet challenges, and resolve issues. Creativity brings joy, enlivens curiosity, sparks the intellect, and enhances neural connections. Imagine your brain consists of millions and millions of pathways like tangled vines, and bursts of light flash all along those pathways every millisecond. That’s creative energy in action!
Creativity is always available for those who want to use it. Whether it’s tucked within your imagination or stashed wherever you keep special moments and ideas, you can actualize creativity by stretching your mind. You can think divergently, generating lots of different ideas and selecting the ones that are most appealing or intriguing. You can think convergently, narrowing possibilities and then focusing on something specific. Or you can think critically, becoming more disciplined around ideas by analyzing them and figuring out how to take them to the next level.
