How do you manage your creativity? Keep it contained until I can release it into a project. Where do you predominately use your creativity and why; professionally, personally? Music, writing, metaphors for learning/teaching, verbal presentations, art. What was your best experience with creativity? I one-shotted a piece of music at a school concert. I'd never seen it before because I had been excused from school for a while and had all of 10 minutes to put it together - used a series of metaphorical mental images to invoke the emotions I thought the composer put into it. Quite a surreal experience, and I was as shocked as anyone when it came out alright. What was your worst? Hmm. *digs through memories* I tried to give a speech to my high school class (every junior was required to) and I promptly realized after the first laugh that my analogies simply would not work. So I was stuck on stage, stumbling through it and barely audible. Do you think creativity is valued or devalued in contemporary society? Depends on what you're doing, I imagine; to say one way or another would be a massive generalization. In what situations do you think creativity is most beneficial? Novelty. In what situations do you think creativity is detrimental? When learning parts of any complex system; creativity can make you cut corners and have an abstracted, fuzzy understanding that falls on its' head when first seeing the complete picture. (I do this in science & math classes all the time >.< Never works for math and rarely for physics/chemistry.) Also in plug-n-chug jobs that don't use creativity. Any other thoughts about creativity? It's fun!
