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What is Creativity?
Everyone has the potential to live a creative life - As healthcare professionals, how might we do so? In this talk Grace Leo chats about what creativity is and what it might look like in various areas of our lives. She also interviews Hugh Montgomery; a climate change advocate, story book author and Guinness world record holder for playing the piano underwater.
Editor's Notes
- #3 Ultramarathon Underwater piano playing 15yo exploring mary rose in London – narrated a DVD! Self published Children’s book - Voyage of the Arctic Tern
- #5 Fluency. The total number of interpretable, meaningful, and relevant ideas generated in response to the stimulus. Flexibility. The number of different categories of relevant responses. Originality. The statistical rarity of the responses. Elaboration. The amount of detail in the responses. Verbal + Non verbal tasks 1 minute!
- #8 Is creativity talent or skill Of course as you presumed it’s a combination of both However how many times have wetreated creativity differently “I’m just not creative” akin to I’m just not kind; or I’m just not a liar We all have creativity in us brewing And IN FACT when you think about when we have been the most creative – children under 5 are highly creative 2. How does creativity think?
- #9 Creativity is playful and entertaining Creativity asks questions & explores possibilities
- #10 Creativity innovates Changes society – Creativity may bend rules or avoid rules strictly applied – company policy - no specific rules on holidays or time off – Instead of Netflix is a company that thinks creatively Reed Hastings – CEO was once famously asked Who is Netflix’s greatest competitior? His answer was Sleep He recognised that Netflix’s market was about getting people sucked into Patty McCord – Chief talent officer
- #11 Creativity FEELS Creativity looks around and absorbs the world Sarah Kay Spoken word poetry Sample from a poem No Matter The Wreckage Captures: What it is to have a mother like sarah’s Emotion Human experience
- #12 But perhaps most of all Creativity is not just THOUGHT -> Creativity is an ACT
- #14 Creativity is about our imagination being put to work It asks questions + sees the invisible problems It challenges the status quo and questions rules It helps us connect to one another and understand emotions and feelings It is fun, playful
- #16 Relearning playfulness (chris neimann) Understanding our feelings (sarah kay) + journaling Asking questions and seeing unsolved problems (Netflix) IMAGINATION PUT TO WORK Aerobic exercise Practice through exercise Acute Exercise: Acute Aerobic Exercise Enhances Students’ Creativity Pedro Ángel Latorre Román, Antonio Pantoja Vallejo & Beatriz Berrios Aguayo Pages 310-315 | Published online: 18 Sep 2018 45 minutes helped improve creative thinking in certain domains Such as fluency and flexibility The findings suggest that both teachers and students believe that a classroom environment which enhances creativity provides students with choices, accepts different ideas, boosts self‐confidence, and focuses on students’ strengths and interests. On the other hand, in an environment which inhibits creativity, ideas are ignored, teachers are controlling, and excessive structure exists.
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