Creativity And Creativity

What is beneath this innovative boom? What is fueling the creativity of our youth? Do we claim some sort of creative superiority to our predecessors? Or, in fact, is it completely to the credit of those who lived before us that we are where we are today? This active rise of perpetual modernization did not come from thin air. Arguably, there aren’t any new ideas at all- only redesigned ones.

None of our modern technology came from new ideas. Rather, our modern innovations were only accomplished through a historical build-up- a long line of seemingly unrelated inventions. By way of explanation through example, the authors’ of The Big Idea: How Breakthroughs of The Past Shape The Future, traced cloud computing, an extremely modern phenomenon, all the way back to 3000 B.C. Traditionally, computing relied on a physical infrastructure, which could be costly. (Ferris, 2011, p. 48) Now, companies don’t have to buy individual software for all of their employees; a single application run via the internet can be accessed by multiple users automatically. (Ferris, 2011, p. 48) To explain this innovation, the National Geographic team began their journey in 3000 B.C., when the Chinese invented the abacus. (Ferris, 2011, p. 59) On a timeline that spanned over 10 lengthy pages, they described invention after connected invention, clearly demonstrating how

Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, professor and former chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago and a leading psychologist in the world of positive psychology, defines creativity as “any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one.” (Csikszentmihalyi, 1996, p. 28) His definition states that creativity is an idea that comes from somewhere. Humans do not have the ability to think of something completely original. Everything we think, whether it is consciously or subconsciously, is based on previous