Defining Creativity - Reflection

At the end of our first class, we have been asked to publish our comment or thoughts for this first class of Creative Studies in our blog. So after Mr Yap lecturing for nearly 2 hours, what have I learned? Actually, for me it was some sort of enlightenment.

For me, the class was very interesting as it reveals the nature of creativity and the myth behind it. Before this I saw creativity is something out of the world experience or something got to do with extraterrestrial activity and I thought only certain people could achieve that awesomeness but not me. By the end of this class, a thought came into my head "probably I could be like them too".

The class reveal that geniuses and novel ideas is not came in single night, instead they come with constant hard work to improve the ideas. Those people that we considered genius are showed that they work harder than normal people. From my understanding normal people will not work harder without any reason, and I can say that the reason those geniuses work hard on their field is that they in love with it or in other word, they are passionate in their work.

The most interesting part of this class is that, creativity like muscle, the more we use it the better it will shape. Therefore creativity is something we should embrace in our daily life instead of using it in certain environment or needs. As I think more about it there is always room for creativity in our daily task and probably with a touch of creativity, daily mundane task would be much more interesting and this will nourish our creativity further more.