Born This Way People are creative by nature As a toddler you may have built upside down cities made up crazy dances colored outside the lines or expressed yourself in other creative ways Later you learned how to follow rules and instructions You may have been told that there was only one right answer to a problem You may have stifled your creative impulses to make friends and get good grades Before long you were probably building cities the right way up dancing the way all your friends do and coloring inside the lines Why Be Creative to travel long distances quickly so the Wright brothers invented the airplane Today people You might think that creativity is only use creative thinking skills in all aspects of important to people such as artists or writers their lives at home school work and in but people use creative thinking skills to social settings and to solve 21st century meet important needs and solve all kinds problems that don't always have simple of complex problems In the past creative solutions Scientists search for cures to the thinkers came up with ideas that solved common cold and rare diseases Engineers straightforward problems and had clear design new technologies that improve our goals People needed a way of harnessing lives Students make music videos and 3D electricity for light so Thomas Edison models and come up with creative excuses developed the lightbulb There was no way for why their homework is not done o76 75 Creativity is valuable to society Creativity is important personally In a survey of 1 000 American adults three quarters felt that creativity was valuable and important
to Express Yourself offer interpretations of the world around them They design creative cakes and outrageous People also use creativity to express their outfits and innovative buildings to show the thoughts and feelings and to connect with world their unique style Sometimes this others They paint pictures write poems and means that you have to unlearn the rules make music that show how they feel and and think outside the box Every child is an artist Tt The problem is how to make remain an artist own once he grows up Pablo Picasso Your How do you think your own creativity compares to the results shown in this study Explain why you are more or less creative now than when you were five years old Creative Confuses B8 Research shows that creativity peaks at the age of five In one study 1 600 five year old children were given a NASA creativity test a test used to find innovative scientists and engineers Nearly all the children scored as creative geniuses The same children were tested at the ages of 10 and 15 and their scores dropped dramatically Only two percent of the 280 000 adults tested scored at the creative genius level Percentage of creative geniuses 12 5 year olds 10 year olds 15 year olds Adults
m HISTORY The Wheels Are Turning Art Imitates Life People have always created and innovated Most ancient cultures did not view wheels or to meet their needs and solve their problems other innovations as acts of creation That The wheel was one of the first great means they felt the wheel had already been innovations It was invented in Mesopotamia created by the gods and they had simply around 3500 B C E and was first used to discovered it They believed that people could make pottery It was not until 300 years later imitate life but they could not create anything however that some creative person thought new only gods had the power to do that Ancient to use it in a different way as a wooden Roman and Greek artists looked to the Muses wheel on a cart and really got things rolling for inspiration the goddesses in mythology who inspired art literature and science Today The inventio people use the term muse to refer to someone Pn of who inspires them to be creative and the word museum is derived from that word Renaissance Men and women Ideas about creativity did not change until a period in the 1500s called the Renaissance in Europe During that period there was new interest in art science architecture and literature The work of individual creators and innovators began to be valued Painters such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo became famous as artists but they also invented machines wrote poetry studied mathematics and figured out how the body works The work of creative women such as the Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola also began to be recognized during this
Revolutionary ldeas Renaissance Man Leonardo da Vinci was the original Renaissance man Today we use the term Renaissance man or woman to describe someone who is During the Industrial Revolution people began to harness their creativity New inventions such as the steam engine made work easier and allowed factories to produce the items people needed much faster and in huge quantities This is called mass production There was new focus on innovation and TEPA its power to make money Later inventions such as the lightbulb and the automobile were successful only if they could be mass produced interested in and knows a lot about many things Da Vinci was a painter sculptor architect scientist engineer and inventoran all around creative genius Da Vinci combined mathematics and art in his drawing titled Vitruvian Man J Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration Thomas Edison SPOTLIGHT In 1879 Thomas Edison invented the first practical electric lightbulb Other inventors had created lightbulbs before but the bulbs did not last long or they used materials such as platinum Alaments that made them very expensive to mass produce Edison set out to shed some light on the problem He and his team studied the designs of earlier lightbulbs and tried to improve them They tested thousands of theories until Edison came up with the bright idea of using bamboo inside a bulb His idea worked and his invention became a shining success Today we call a spark of creativity a lightbulb
