How Can We Be Creative ?

There are a lot of factors which can lead to creativity, although the public opinion about this phenomenon makes us think that it is something genetic, something that people born with. That being said, no one denies that creativity is a positive talent, that leads us to know and explore new great things. By looking at creative people’s lives we can say that creativity is the focus that you bring to the activity you are doing. It is also an attitude and an inner approach – how you look at things. And finally it’s not being afraid to fail while you’re doing something.

A person can be creative in such a way he ‘s doing an activity with such passion that makes his way different to how other people do it. That leads us to believe that any action can be creative, if you do it in a creative way. You can sing and dance in an uncreative way by not giving it the activity enough consideration or focus, and you do it just as other people do. But you can also cook and paint in a creative way by loving the activity of cooking or painting and giving it consideration and passion that will makes the way you doing it very different to how others do. It’s the person himself who can control how much his actions are creative by choosing the way he’s making them.

Another factor that can lead us to be creative is the inner passion we have for certain activities, the way people look at things. It’s about the inner talent we have to bring to this world. That’s why all of us aren’t dancers or painters. As Osho, an Indian philosopher said

”Not everybody can be a painter, and there is no need also. If everybody is a painter the world will be very ugly.” Everyone in this life is here to find what he loves the most and to enjoy doing it in a creative way. There is always that thing that you find  yourself happy doing, that’s your passion, hang on to it.

The fear of failing is a feeling that cannot lead to creativity. As matter of a fact, most of the creative people through history were not afraid to fail. As Thomas Edison said, ” I have not failed, I’ve just found out 1000 ways that won’t work.” His attempts to try again after every failure and how he learned from them, made him one of the creative people over history. Those who dare to fail and to try again are the only ones who achieve creativity.

Eventually the assumption that people have is that creativity has something to deal with genes. If there are the right parents, the child turns out to be creative. This is not at all true. We are all born to be creative. We did creative things when we were children, and this creativity can fade by time forever, or can occur again if they’ve been stimulated by focusing on the things we love to do and doing them with passion and joy.