Barriers to creativity

1. Barriers to creativity

2. What keep us away from exercising creative potential

3. Barriers • Historical • Biological • Physiological • Sociological • psychological

4. historical • History repeat itself • Circles of civilization • futile any attempt to change • Plato’s concept fatalistic individual fatalistic society • Little control over the life

5. Biological barrier • Creative ability is a hereditary trait • Environment is the major factor

6. Physiological barriers • Brain damage • Disease • Accident Beethoven was deaf

7. Sociological barriers • Social environment affects our creative expression • Creative expression involves personal risk • Negative reaction to creative expression • Retreat to feel accepted

8. Psychological barriers • Self-imposed barriers • Conformity or giving the answer expected • Lack of effort in challenging the obvious • Evaluating too quickly • Fear of looking like a fool

9. Self-imposed barrier • Difficult to recognize • Conscious or unconscious

10. Conformity or giving the answer expected • Follows self-imposed barrier • Conform to established pattern

11. Lack of effort in challenging the obvious • Any new idea is rejected automatically • New idea come from a junior, a peer or even someone out of department • The rejecter has feeling of anger or jealousy at not thinking of the idea himself

12. Evaluating too quickly • Not easy to remove • Automatic no response • So the idea is buried and chance is lost • Suspended judjment

13. Fear of looking like a fool • Biggest barrier and the most difficult to remove • Start very early in the life • Creative people are prepared to take risks • Laugh with not at the wild idea

14. creativity definition • End product or innovation oriented any process by which something new is produced • Expressive decision to do something when you are irritated • Psychoanalytic • Solution thinking divergent thinking

15. Creative field • Creative process • Creative person • Creative product • Creative place

16. Creative process • The role of insight • Level of creative process • The need for product of such creative process • Accessibility of unconscious elements • Prolonged process

17. Creative person • Cognitive characteristics High intelligence, originality, articulateness, verbal fluency, good imagination, flexibility and skills in making decision, coping well with novelty, logical thinking skills,

18. Creative person • Personality characteristics willingness to confront hostility and take intellectual risks, being open to new experience and growth, high intrinsic motivation, task focused, impact on the people surround him tolerance for ambiguity, broad range of interests, play with ideas, valuing originality and creativity

19. Creative person • Developmental characteristics being a firstborn, having survived the loss of one or both parents early in life, experiencing unusual situations, being reared in stimulating home environment, exposed to wide range of ideas, happier with books than to people

20. Creative product • Novel • Powerful and generalizable • Valuable and useful to the society

21. Creative place • Educational and employment opportunities • Background knowledge • Styles and paradigm • Good teachers