
BUILDING A CREATIVE MIND
BUILDING A CREATIVE MIND
Is creativity a skill that you are born with? Or perhaps it is an ability that
you can develop and improve no matter your studies, age, genre or nationality.
A close look of what creativity is and how everybody can have access to it.
By ALEJANDRO CARDONA
SHANGHAI-
Creativity has many different ways to be interpreted; but in the end
it can be said that it is the act of creating something new, despite the
surrounding or the background of that thing created. Every invention
used by us every single day, from the television to the elevator, is a result
of a creative process. It is the implementation of this process what it will
take the students and our society to a new level in technology.
Every country has different education systems that have developed
a unique social structure and the need of some specific characteristic
of social behavior. This is why you can say that Chinese students possess
some strong features that make them easy to identify between other
students around the world. What is important now is to learn how to
recognize these features and understand how to use them with the
ultimate goal of creating a better world. We cannot deny the growing
necessity of innovation in every field of technology whether its new
energies, daily products or advance robotics.
Since we are born we start to process information coming from
every action, object and person that we perceive from the world around
us. First our family, who begins to teach us how to act under a certain
social behavior according to the cultural requirements. In this stage we
are the reflection of what they want us to be, and how their parents
educated them. After a few years we go to school, where the interaction
with other children gives us a chance to compare our behavior with theirs.
In this stage the understanding of what a social life is, has the initial step.
Then comes high school and college where little by little gives shape to
what we call personality.
With the base of social logic established, we build a life with specific
features that change depending on the city we live in and the country
where in. We spend the rest of the years of our adult life trying to be
part of a community which accepts us according to our roles. Finally we
create a family and educate our children towards starting this whole cycle
again.
I have been living in china since the last year and is surprising how
good Chinese people can be learning and understanding Theory, however
I believe is important to work harder for the improvement of the Creativity.
Little by little we all together can develop and enhance our skills with hard
work, Vision of the future, imagination, innovation and of course a lot of
CREATIVITY.