CREATIVITY - The ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc. [Creativity week begins here. Click for this week's Bliss Initiatives.]
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I've recently been thinking about what I will do once my year of Bliss comes to an end. Part of me thinks I should just keep going and continue repeating my virtues. It isn't as if one could ever be done with any of them but a new concentration could be very fun. If you have peeked at my Play an Everyday Game tab at the top of the blog you would have read that I'm considering things like Everyday Green and Everyday Adventures as possible future games but each time I come to creativity week it just seems that the topic is so rich it would be a very good stand alone topic.
There is already a Creative Everyday challenge which was started by Leah who also runs an Art Every Day Month challenge in November. There are also loads of creativity focused websites and blogs. Eric Maisel of "The Creativity Book
" has a whole bunch of programs and strategies for encouraging creativity. With all the rich material already available there could be a lot of interesting aspects to explore. So the question becomes what aspects? What are the virtues of creativity?
" has a whole bunch of programs and strategies for encouraging creativity. With all the rich material already available there could be a lot of interesting aspects to explore. So the question becomes what aspects? What are the virtues of creativity? As I did when starting my Virtues of Bliss inquiry a perusal of dictionaries and reference works (like The Creativity Book) provide a fun hunting ground. I haven't taken the time to get serious about this, and I haven't committed to anything with regard to my future games but looking at my different virtues in this way is really quite fun. You may want to do a version of this inquiry for anything you would like concentrate on. A whole Everyday Game is not required for benefits to be discovered.
) provide a fun hunting ground. I haven't taken the time to get serious about this, and I haven't committed to anything with regard to my future games but looking at my different virtues in this way is really quite fun. You may want to do a version of this inquiry for anything you would like concentrate on. A whole Everyday Game is not required for benefits to be discovered.So on my first pass here are six virtues of creativity that I believe could provide a richer understanding of creativity itself:
PLAY
INSPIRATION
INGENUITY
VISION
IMAGINATION
DESIGN
How about you? If you were designing a game with "virtues of creativity" what would you include? What embodies creativity for you? If this is to be the next Everyday Game what should not be missed?
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These "virtues" of creativity are perfect. I think the most important key to creativity is imagination and the ability to think outside the box. Dream up the fantastic. It doesn't matter if you are skilled or not - everyone has an inner artist waiting to be unleashed. You could write a poem, paint a picture, create a fun hairstyle. The sky's the limit! Just imagine it! :) Theresa
ReplyDeleteCreativity enable us to bring into existence the art within us! All of us are artists; all of us are creators of some sort of art! Loving is an art! Each virtue you have listed are arts performed by each of us - some are better at them than others, yet - we are all artists! I admire your idea to create this blog so full of inner expression! What a gift! Personally I express some art through painting and every time I pick up the brush I experience any and all virtues spoken here! Thank you for bringing me closer to your heart, as I see your heart fills every word written here! Respectfully,
ReplyDelete✩♥*•˛♥˛•*♥✩Vera De Carvalho, aka ARTweestic ✩♥*•˛♥˛•*♥✩
Love your creativity virtues ~ I also need childlike wonder, awe and an open heart. I find that if I'm "in the moment", I'm more open to everyday delights. Thanks for sparking those thoughts!
ReplyDeleteI would agree fully with your 6 virtues.
ReplyDeleteMuch of my creativity comes from nothing. I sit quietly, blockages evaporate, and then the ideas come torrent-like at me. So it would fall into the category of inspiration with meditation as the impetus.
Great insight ;)