Creativity Grows on Insight and Understanding

[youtube width=”500″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOBzIgfVOPU[/youtube] Creativity has an inherent order that grows on insight and understanding. It has to develop according to that. It might need rules and boundaries to keep growing in a certain direction. It might need ideas from others to grow even further … but … only after a certain amount of independent growth.… Continue reading Creativity Grows on Insight and Understanding

Creativity beyond Praise and Criticism

Still reading the letters on aesthetic education, I tried to understand the beginning of part two. In that part, Schiller paints a picture of how the individual is blinded by the age in which he lives, the society in which he is born. But also about the struggle of that society itself. That has this… Continue reading Creativity beyond Praise and Criticism

How Creativity is Blocked by the Need for Approval

Creativity is a natural potential energy in humans, which becomes destructive if it is blocked. This is a conclusion of a chapter in the book that I want to review in this post. The first part of the above conclusion says that creativity is an inherent characteristic in humans, which is shown by experiments with… Continue reading How Creativity is Blocked by the Need for Approval