One Apple A Day #867 - Creativity
We all have incredible creative potential. We may not express it with the same intensity, but it's there. I believe all strengths exist as potential within us, but each one creates a unique combination. Some are well expressed, others less and some are entirely forgotten.
The ones we develop are the one in tune with our inclinations and those supported by our environments.
So, creativity is in there. It is not something restricted to a few elected.
And its expression can take infinite forms and shapes.
The word creativity comes from the Latin creō", meaning "to create, make". It was then the ability to create from nothing but ideas, to manifest thinking into reality.
An ability that in ancient time was believed to be exclusive to deities.
It was only with the Renaissance that we began to believe that human beings have the same capacity to transform ideas into reality. In the beginning, creativity was confined to art. It's only from the 19th century that creativity has been expanded to all fields of human activities.
A big shift in my vision of creativity happened when I began to explore Eastern philosophies. While in Western cultures, the human being is the source of the idea - that's why we have intellectual property - in Eastern view creation is a kind of discovery. From that perspective, we are channels, not originators of any idea.