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This-essay is a8412121.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %BLOCKED CREATIVE PERCEPTIONS 841212 We often wonder why some people are creative, when most are not. Perhaps we should wonder why most people are not creative, what blocks their creativity? Of course it appears absurd to assume that the ability to be creative is natural and that lack of the ability is abnormal, needing explanation. But absurdity is a function of fundamental assumptions. What is absurd in one era, becomes obviously true in a later era, and vice versa. Before Newton it was absurd to assume that the natural thing for an object to do was to continue moving in a straight line at constant speed, and that departures from such continuation in steady motion required an explanation. It was natural to assume that the natural thing for objects to do was to come to rest; or in the case of heavenly objects, to move in circles. That which requires explanation changes from era to era. Why might most people be non-creative? We usually think they lack ability, but all people have some kinds of abilities; yet do not use them creatively. They do not do new things. They keep on doing what others and/or they have traditionally done, unless they are forced to do otherwise. They obey the law of inertia. But that is just a description, not an explanation. Perhaps people are not creative because they are afraid to be creative. Fear may chill any creative instincts. As infants and young children they may have been taught by fearful adults to fear being creative--- by being put down when they were genuinely creative, when they did genuinely new things. They learned it does not pay to be different; it pays to conform, to be traditional. They learned not to be creative by being punished when they were creative. It makes a tremendous difference to assume that children are naturally creative and are taught not to be creative. Making that assumption will lead to fundamentally new patterns of belief, thinking, attitudes, and behavior on the part of parents, teachers and wise leaders. What difference does it make that the assumption is likely to be self-validating? So also is the assumption that children are naturally non- creative. On what grounds should we pick one assumption over the other assumption? (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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