Blog Post Assignment #1 - What Is Creativity?

In your book, Artforms, there is a section called "What is Creativity?"on page 12. In this section it talks about what we mean by "creativity" and there is a list of traits that most creative people share.  Here is the list.  Please look at the list and decide which of these traits you have.

ASSIGNMENT

Write a new blog post, titled "Blog Post #1 - What Is Creativity?" and talk about which traits from the list you think you have and why you think you have them.

• wonder and be curious
• be open to new experience
• see the familiar from an unfamiliar point fo view
• take advantage of accidental events
• make one thing out of another by shifting its function
• generalize from particulars in order to see broad applications
• synthesize, integrate, find order in disorder
• be in touch with one's unconscious, yet be intensely conscious
• be able to analyze and evaluate
• know oneself, have the courage to be oneself in the face of opposition
• be willing to take risks
• be persistent: to work for long periods--perhaps years--in pursuit of a goal

**This is due on Monday, Sept. 19 before class.**