Comments on: The Dynamics and Intelligence of Creativity http://chamainc.com/blog/the-dynamics-and-intelligence-of-creativity/ This is the blog of Chama Inc. - a creative marketing and web solutions company, based in Algarve, Portugal. This blog is a way for us to share marketing ideas, stories, inspiration, opinions and rants. Wed, 05 May 2010 10:44:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Gabriella Opaz http://chamainc.com/blog/the-dynamics-and-intelligence-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-1057 Gabriella Opaz Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:09:09 +0000 http://chamainc.com/blog/the-dynamics-and-intelligence-of-creativity/#comment-1057 Since WWI education in many parts of the world quickly turned from individual learning to mass factory information overload, not based on personal needs, but a combined average. It was created to get children through school as rapidly and efficiently as possible in order to either contribute to the workforce or the military. Intriguingly this mentality has never gone away. We are educating to promote consumerism, and suppress wisdom and creativity. Critical thinking has been swept under the rug and taking personal responsibility has been replaced with blame and lawsuits. It is without a doubt that the nurturing of creativity appears lowest on the rung, and I can only hope that each of us individually, will do our part to keep that creative fire burning in ourselves. Since WWI education in many parts of the world quickly turned from individual learning to mass factory information overload, not based on personal needs, but a combined average. It was created to get children through school as rapidly and efficiently as possible in order to either contribute to the workforce or the military. Intriguingly this mentality has never gone away.
We are educating to promote consumerism, and suppress wisdom and creativity. Critical thinking has been swept under the rug and taking personal responsibility has been replaced with blame and lawsuits. It is without a doubt that the nurturing of creativity appears lowest on the rung, and I can only hope that each of us individually, will do our part to keep that creative fire burning in ourselves.

]]> By: Eddie Correia http://chamainc.com/blog/the-dynamics-and-intelligence-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-1052 Eddie Correia Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:44:14 +0000 http://chamainc.com/blog/the-dynamics-and-intelligence-of-creativity/#comment-1052 Interesting perspective Daniel, I think this is an issue we're going to see a lot more of, and one that will get considerably more value in the coming years. At the moment we know what we use half our brain capacity for, and we know we pull most of our creativity from the left, but could we also have "rich" resources that we haven't tapped into, and only need a little support to be set free? We evolve through our creativity and the implementation of those ideas, how boring if nothing ever changed, our existence would be quite banal no? I tend to agree, with Professor Robinson support creativity in any and every environment, then see what happens... Interesting perspective Daniel, I think this is an issue we’re going to see a lot more of, and one that will get considerably more value in the coming years. At the moment we know what we use half our brain capacity for, and we know we pull most of our creativity from the left, but could we also have “rich” resources that we haven’t tapped into, and only need a little support to be set free?

We evolve through our creativity and the implementation of those ideas, how boring if nothing ever changed, our existence would be quite banal no?

I tend to agree, with Professor Robinson support creativity in any and every environment, then see what happens…

]]> By: Daniel Barradas http://chamainc.com/blog/the-dynamics-and-intelligence-of-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-1011 Daniel Barradas Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:53:34 +0000 http://chamainc.com/blog/the-dynamics-and-intelligence-of-creativity/#comment-1011 "Not knowing it was impossible, he went ahead and did it." The way I see it, as we grow older we lose our innocence and with it most of our spirit of adventure. Society (ultimately) has the blame, our family and our cultures with their "imposed" values. So we end up being a sum of influences and it really comes down to luck really. If you're lucky enough to grow up in an interesting creative environment, if your fortunate enough to have a "rich" life full of interesting persons and experiences then maybe you'll be able to set yourself free from what society imposes and what everyone else assumes as "true". The bottom line is that we don't tackle problems the same way as "children" because we're biased by our surroundings, by our knowledge and by our experiences. We're just too afraid to take risks and as such we don't evolve as quickly as we could. Oh well ... :| “Not knowing it was impossible, he went ahead and did it.”

The way I see it, as we grow older we lose our innocence and with it most of our spirit of adventure. Society (ultimately) has the blame, our family and our cultures with their “imposed” values. So we end up being a sum of influences and it really comes down to luck really. If you’re lucky enough to grow up in an interesting creative environment, if your fortunate enough to have a “rich” life full of interesting persons and experiences then maybe you’ll be able to set yourself free from what society imposes and what everyone else assumes as “true”.

The bottom line is that we don’t tackle problems the same way as “children” because we’re biased by our surroundings, by our knowledge and by our experiences. We’re just too afraid to take risks and as such we don’t evolve as quickly as we could.

Oh well … :|

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