What influcenes your creativity?

November 21, 2008 js624

OK, so I am NOT A HAPPY BUNNY at the minute, I just wrote a rather impressive post and then my interned decided to go coo-cooo when I pressed publish so it lost the post. grrr, boo hiss boo!!

So, at the beginning of last weeks session, Sophie asked us to think of a moment from our school life when we felt our creativity had been inspired or hindered. I though that is was quite sad that I wasn’t able to think of either so, since then I have been wracking my brains to think of something. The only thing that I have come up with is amoment related to a netball tournament although I am not sure how this would relate to creativity. Perhaps it does link to creativity if you look at Phil’s blog where he discusses whether there is a connection between sports and creativity.

Anyway, when I was in year six there was an annual netball tournament but it had been postponed from one week to another, unfortunately I wasn’t able to make to second date as my parents had busy jobs and wouldn’t be able to pick me up. So the team went to the tournament….and lost, which was quite a disappointment as the previous year, we had won! The day after the tournament, the netball coach called me into her classroom and really laid into me about not being able to make it to the tournament and that it was my fault that the team lost. This made me feel so bad and guilty that after this I never really felt confident at netball and for the rest of the year didnt play netball. I find it quite sad that this is the only significant memory that I have about my creativity in primary school and its a bad one. Quite a depressing thought!

On another notre, nearer the end of the session Sophie asked us to discuss what influences our creativity. The two most significant points that I think Joanna and I came up with, which I feel are important to me were the environment and the encouragement from others.

Firstly, the type of the environment that I am in is important. It has to be an environment that I am comfortable in other wise my mind will not focus and I will constantly be thinking about what is going on around me rather than thinking about the task in hand.

I think that positive encouragement is very important when someone is trying to be creative, so that they can keep a positive mind set, however, personally I prefer to keep that task that I am working on to myself until is is done completely and I am happy wiht it before someone see’s it and passes judgement positive or negative.

Sophie also suggested that we make an active effort to take these factors into account in order for us to be more creative. To do this, the environment that I am in, I always try and make it happy and peaceful which is what I feel makes me more likely to be creative for example, my room is my sanctuary and I try to keep it peaceful, not too cluttered with images on the walls which make me smile or mean something significant to me. In relation to the second point, I try to always keep a postive attitude (even when the computer decided to get rid of my first post!) so I will try to make more of a conscious effort to be more positive as sometimes, when what I am working on is’nt quite up to the standard that I wished I can tend to be come quite down trodden but hopefully consciously keeping a more positive attitude will help me to combat this and become more open to my creativness! I shall have to keep you all updated!

So, that was take two of one post, however, I dont think that it quite matches the first one. oh well!

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