The world would be just a piece of dirt with various mismash of semi or non related objects spewn across its vastness of a dulldrum existence without creativity. There might not even be any words to describe the dulldrumness of its existence.
From my perspective, I have developed a passion for seeking out creative outlets as a means to escape my dulldrum of mediocracy and enhance the need to create. I engage in various projects that continually expands and encourages this need to satisfy all the different senses. I view creation as giving life to oneself as well as giving life to the world. An act of saying "YES" to life itself. Overall, the more I create, the more I feel alive.
Creative Thinking
Imagine harnessing a force such as light and concentrating it into a single beam that can cut through skin and heal it at the same time. This of course is what we now know today as LASER which stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, where light is really electromagnetic radiation that is amplified at various frequencies depending on its use. But that's not important right now... Interestingly enough, the creation of laser technology is not attributed to one person but a culmination of ideas from several people, starting with Albert Einstein in 1917 who laid the foundation with his Quantum Theory of Radiation.
The lesson I learned here is that I don't have to create from scratch, but rather build upon someone else's imagination. The most difficult part of this process and yet the most fun is sifting through many great ideas to start from or to pattern after.
The sifting process that I emplore is more like completing a jigsaw puzzle picking up a piece of the puzzle to try and figure out where it goes. If I don't see where it goes, I put it down and pick up another piece. Nothing goes into the waste basket because I know that I can use that piece in another part of the puzzle or on another puzzle all together.
The magic behind creative thinking is the formation of thoughts that become reality. The reality may not happen immediately but undoubtedly and inevitably will come to fruition.
Vision:
The key to creativity is visualization. If you can see it in your mind's eye, then it is possible to start the mental engineering process. Leaders and motivational speakers talk a lot about having vision because it is the mental roadmap where you establish where you are starting from and where you would like to end up. The constraining part of visualization is that most often we rely on paths we've already taken. In order for the visualization to play a major role in creativity it is imperative to abandon restriction to all known paths and challenge oneself to explore all paths.
Given a room full of diverse individuals to come up with ideas for a given project, inevitably the disparaging comment of "that won't work because..." or "... we can't do that because...." arises from one amongst the multitudes. Discounting ideas through the visualization process is much like coming to a locked door and saying, "this is a deadend..." rather than, "let's keep this path in mind and perhaps we might be able to find the key to open the door..." The visualization process is where the impossible becomes possible; an act of reaching out to the heavens and asking for some insight into the realms of possibilites. To paraphrase one of the best motivational speaker, Les Brown; illogical thinking brings about illogical results. Therefore if you think about the impossible, you will acheive the impossible.
