Post by isabelleballard on Aug 10, 2011 7:06:46 GMT -5
Creativity is something that can be helped with practice. “Well, think of it like basketball. Being tall does help to be a pro basketball player, but the rest of us can still get quite good at the sport through practice. There are certain innate features of the brain that make some people naturally prone to divergent thinking” Though some people are naturally more creative than others “Convergent thinking and focused attention are necessary, too, and those require different neural gifts. Crucially, rapidly shifting between these modes is a top-down function under your mental control”
Increased creativity allows one to better control the interaction between the two different sides of the brain “During improvisation, the highly trained music majors used their brains in a way the nonmusicians could not: they deactivated their right-temporoparietal junction. Normally, the r-TPJ reads incoming stimuli, sorting the stream for relevance. By turning that off, the musicians blocked out all distraction. They hit an extra gear of concentration, allowing them to work with the notes and create music spontaneously.” That is why creativity is often more important than IQ in determining the correlation to lifetime creative accomplishement.
“Like intelligence tests, Torrance’s test—a 90-minute series of discrete tasks, administered by a psychologist—has been taken by millions worldwide in 50 languages. Yet there is one crucial difference between IQ and CQ scores. With intelligence, there is a phenomenon called the Flynn effect—each generation, scores go up about 10 points. Enriched environments are making kids smarter. With creativity, a reverse trend has just been identified and is being reported for the first time here: American creativity scores are falling.”The decline in creativity in recent years is sad, but it is not too late to fix our creativity crisis. It did not take very long to lose our creativity, so I am sure that it will not take very long to find it. We can all pitch in and do our part. No one has perfect creativity. It’s sort of the same idea as everyone planting ten trees in their lifetime to reduce the effects of carbon gas emissions. “When applied to the everyday process of work or school, brain function improves.” If we all try to come up with new ideas every day we might be able to reverse our creativity crisis and turn it into a sisirc ytivitaerc.
Maybe our first creative exercise could be making up a more creative creativity exercise. I suppose my idea isn’t the most creative thought anyone has ever had, but if I follow my own plan, the rest of my ideas should be increasingly creative over time, until a graph of my creativity looks like a capital J.
Increased creativity allows one to better control the interaction between the two different sides of the brain “During improvisation, the highly trained music majors used their brains in a way the nonmusicians could not: they deactivated their right-temporoparietal junction. Normally, the r-TPJ reads incoming stimuli, sorting the stream for relevance. By turning that off, the musicians blocked out all distraction. They hit an extra gear of concentration, allowing them to work with the notes and create music spontaneously.” That is why creativity is often more important than IQ in determining the correlation to lifetime creative accomplishement.
“Like intelligence tests, Torrance’s test—a 90-minute series of discrete tasks, administered by a psychologist—has been taken by millions worldwide in 50 languages. Yet there is one crucial difference between IQ and CQ scores. With intelligence, there is a phenomenon called the Flynn effect—each generation, scores go up about 10 points. Enriched environments are making kids smarter. With creativity, a reverse trend has just been identified and is being reported for the first time here: American creativity scores are falling.”The decline in creativity in recent years is sad, but it is not too late to fix our creativity crisis. It did not take very long to lose our creativity, so I am sure that it will not take very long to find it. We can all pitch in and do our part. No one has perfect creativity. It’s sort of the same idea as everyone planting ten trees in their lifetime to reduce the effects of carbon gas emissions. “When applied to the everyday process of work or school, brain function improves.” If we all try to come up with new ideas every day we might be able to reverse our creativity crisis and turn it into a sisirc ytivitaerc.
Maybe our first creative exercise could be making up a more creative creativity exercise. I suppose my idea isn’t the most creative thought anyone has ever had, but if I follow my own plan, the rest of my ideas should be increasingly creative over time, until a graph of my creativity looks like a capital J.