THREE THINGS MADE US • QURIOSITY MEMORY VIOLENCE
To create. To invent. To dream awake. To deal with a leaking roof. To overcome a blank paper. To know what to do if there´s no toilet. To find a new friend. To deal with the forever-tight entanglement of curiosity and necessity. Creativity— thee most overused platitude throughout internet, often too frequently falls into pits of confusions.
To survive in this world you need knowledge, skill, curiosity, curage, persistance and creativity. You could also do with confident trained intuition. Serendipity that unexpected companion of the prepared mind. And good damned folky luck.
Putting it in perspective.
Creativity shows up in all sorts of situations. Often in problem-solving— we’ll get to that. But also in spontanious outbursts of idéas, images, visions, stories, all sorts of involuntary activities we really have no control over in this process. The key word is spontaneous.
Dreams for instance being of this category. Here the process is going on by itself. Delt with by the unconscious. And the other situation is problem-solving creativity at will.
Still the straitforward process of creativity isn’t always strait at all. Sometimes deliberatly to be turned on it’s head. Or foot. But there are recognizable patterns to be seen.
I usually divide the subject in two; The Process and the State of being—our mental condition.
Starting with the process; it can ideally be described in five or six steps.
To be continued..