Creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity is characterized by the ability to perceive the world in a new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connection between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solution.
Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed. The created item may be intangible (such as an idea, a scientific theory, a musical composition, or a joke) or a physical object (such as an invention, a literary work, or a painting).
Scholarly interest in creativity is found in a number of disciplines, primarily psychology, business studies, and cognitive science, but also education, technology, engineering, philosophy (particularly philosophy of science), theology, sociology, linguistics, and economics, covering the relations between creativity and general intelligence, personality type, mental and neurological processes, mental health, or artificial intelligence; the potential for fostering creativity through education and training; the fostering of creativity for national economic benefit, and the application of creative resources to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning.
Now going by the line of history, I would be using an extract from the late stone age. Stone age is a period in Africa whereby all the activities of man is characterized by stone implements. This period is divided into three phases; the Paleolithic period, the Mesolithic period and the Neolithic period which is the late stone age, during the first two period the early man's activities were not recorded, the early man was still a gatherer of fruit and hunters of animals. The rate of survival during this period was very low, but, when it got to the late stone age (Neolithic stone age) early man began to get grasp of his environment and began to control the activities within it, new ideas were brought up, critical thinking were encourage, then, creativity comes in. Planting and breading of Animal started from the left over fruits gotten in the thick forest and the Animals been hunted down, this channelled a way for agriculture.
Early man through their creativity discovered a lot of things, for instance, Iron was discovered and through creativity they version out different kinds of tools and weapon, got themselves permanent abode, start a system of government, means of exchange among themselves and the likes. All this things were possible through the act of reasoning and critical thinking which were put into action (Creativity)
The Nile would have been havoc and a great disaster to the Egyptians but the reverse is the case rather than danger the Nile river serve as a blessing to the people of Egypt. All their imagine and unimagined problem were totally solved through it, it was through this Nile river they discovered the means of the first irrigation in the world, means of writing, building of pyramids and other building construction, transportation, agriculture, security and lot more, were discovered through the river Nile, with the help of reasoning and critical thinking that came into action (Creativity) and turn their misfortune to fortune.
In the medieval Europe, after renaissance period that gave chance for questions, enlightenment came in and gave space for discoveries then, industrial revolution took place whereby different kinds of machines were invented and this boost the economy and the strength of Europe and made Europe go far beyond other continent, this happen through the help of creativity. The person that invented airplane first got the idea then it graduated into practical and then got to the final stage. Same thing applicable to other things that was invented the likes of vehicles, computer, technologies accessories, solar inverters, and the likes.
Let’s take a look to the bible reference about creativity. In the book of Genesis 1:26, the bible recorded it that, “God said, come let us create man in our own image". That's reasoning together and thinking, then God form man out of the dust, that putting the thinking into action. Creativity is bringing the truth out of lie, the fiction out of non-fiction, believable from unbelievable, seen from unseen, reality from unreal, possibility from impossibility, uncommon from common, to round it up creativity start from the I.Q (intelligent Quotient) thinking faculty.
How can you be creative? Firstly, the quality of your life determined the type of friends you keep, if I may ask? Who are you keeping as friend? Who is your mentor? Who is your best friend? Who do you look up to? Who do you learn from? Who inspires you? These questions will determine where you will be in the nearest future. If you are the best person amongst your friends, then you need to leave that room, if you are the wisest person in that circle, then it's high time you left that cycle. You must be around those who make you feel naked and less educated, if your friend is not building you, its destroying you, and if he's not adding to you it's subtracting. Keep a friend that can affect your life positively, build your career and make you have a colourful future
In addition; sign up for a class in something you've never done before, you can't be idle and expect to be creative, come up with something new, create a new Idea, the created item may be intangible (such as an idea, a scientific theory, a musical composition, or a joke) or a physical object (such as an invention, a literary work, or a painting). It can even be in your already business. Create the right environment, get a sketch book, sketch out your new idea and then make it work.
But still the government still has a lot to do on this because an idea that was put into action that was never recognized or encourage, it may die and never rise again. I will employ the government to support us on this act, create a seminar and educate people on how to be creative in all they do. By doing this it can solve the problem of job scarcity, unemployment and insecurity in the country.
In conclusion. History is the study of the past by the present people to correct the future and as will can see, it was this creativity that our forefathers had exhibited that is still helping us thus far. For instance agriculture was discovered by the early man and till now there’s no country that can exist without this system. Nobody is creating something new of benefit to the nation and to the world in general, the only thing will get ourselves involved in is creating of nuclear and atomic bombs, creating of sophisticated weapon that can destroy and destabilize, think new, broading your knowledge, discover new things and put it into action and you will see you are changing the world for better. Lets create something new that will give life and make our unborn generation proud of us like will did to the pass generation
