The meaning behind Creativity and some examples

Creativity is what makes humans stand out among other species. We as human beings use creativity in our everyday lives without even realizing it. When you wake up in the morning and you put together an outfit that suits your mood for the day, that is an act of creativity. When you are just doodling during a meeting at work or in class, that is an act of creativity; and everyone is creative. Although, we are all creative we all don’t view creativity in the same way. The value you see in creativity depends on what you think is valuable. For example, you may believe that it is better to win the art fair by imitating a work that you have seen before because you ended up winning. But, others may believe that the person who came up with something never seen before, a new way of painting with new mediums, creativity is of more value. Because creativity is at its peak when you form a completely new idea or innovation. These new ideas and innovations can come from anything that sparks an interest in the creator.

With new ideas and innovations being made every day the concept behind creativity was finally made. Two researchers found that they could put all types of creativity into a model called the Four-c Model. This model states that creativity has four types: Big-C,Little-c,mini-c,Pro-c. Each of these different from the next. Big-C creativity deals with creative greatness and genius. Little-c involves a creative act done by an average person. While mini-c is the difference between a 1^st graders insight on astronomy and a senior in high schools insight on astronomy. Both having valid input but one person’s input (the senior) is of more value because of their level of thinking. Lastly Pro-c which involves the difference between someone that has mastered a skill but is just not well known for the mastery of that skill when compared to someone well known for their mastery. This is the difference between a professor that has mastered their subject but will never be as well-known as the person that made the theories they use to come up with their new research and studies. With all these categories of creativity, people will now be able to compare what they believe is everyday creativity (Little-c) to creative greatness (Big-C).

Now that you know what the academic world is defining creativity as you can make your own decisions as to what fits in each category and whether or not you believe these categories fulfill all aspects of creativity. You can decide if everything creative can be confined to this model or you can think of a new concept or think of nothing at all. That’s the whole idea behind creativity you are the one forming new opinions and coming up with new concepts that interest you. You determine what is creative.