Don’t think you are creative when you are able to do some things. When I say some things, I mean things that anyone can guess how it can be done that way or recreating something that someone else has created the same way. That’s not creativity but copycat. First of all let’s define what creativity means then maybe we might grasp a better understanding of what being creative is all about.
Creativity is the art of turning new imaginative ideas into reality. Now take note, the new and imaginative ideas here doesn’t mean when you want to be creative you must make something new. Something the world has never seen. No. Not that. You can be creative in something you didn’t create but picked up along the way and still stand out among the numerous people who do the same thing. Let’s take artists for example, all the great artist that history kept mentioning like the likes of Leonardo Da Vinci are not the first people to paint neither were they the ones who invented painting but creativity made them stand out among millions of artists out there.
Look not only creating something new is creative but even recreating something in existence in a new dimension that will beat the original invention is what is meant to be creative. Karl Benz made a car but creativity is what made us ride luxurious cars around today. The kind of airplane the world is riding today, is as a result of some creative minds who recreated what the Wright Brothers created.
Creative people thing differently from others. You can call them abnormal people. I think I like that because it takes a certain degree of abnormality to challenge oneself and bring into being something which is not.
“If you have ideas but don’t act on them, you are only imaginative but not creative.” Basola Victor.
