What Is Your Creativity? Choose One Of The 5!

Creativity is defined as the capacity of an affective cognitive character that allows us to organize a psychological process that leads us to show a new, original, flexible, fluid and organized behavior, oriented to the search, detection and solution of a problem.

Creativity is in high demand in the professional field since the people who have developed it are capable of offering unique and ingenious products. Companies are looking for original and innovative people to move them forward and gain an advantage over the most direct competition. Thus, they constitute the most important intangible wealth.

But, creativity is also a source of riddles :. Why are some people more creative than others? Are there zero creative people? The truth is that there are no people without creativity but those who have not yet found their type of creativity.

What are the characteristics of creative thinking?

A creative mind is characterized by a number of elements:

It is the ability to generate a considerable amount of ideas or responses to established thoughts. Normally, we have only an idea or two for a thought and these are conditioned by what we have seen or heard on other occasions. A creative mind is capable of generating many ideas or responses.

It is the ability to expand our alternatives. Manage to generate more options. When we need to answer a question, a creative mind has many options. Sometimes too many, which hinders the ability to choose but favors the number of possibilities.

It is based on thinking of new ideas, visualizing problems differently and proposing new solutions. The ideas that emerge are novel, something that has never been thought of or a new perspective on a solution already given.

Add elements, details or ideas that already exist, modifying some of their attributes. Without being original, just adding small new brushstrokes that give an existing idea fresh air.

Types of creativity

We don’t have to have a “standard” type of creativity. We can have other types, like the ones we explain below. On the other hand, if we want to develop our creative potential, we can do so by focusing on just one type or by working all of them at the same time. Logically, the second way will be the most complete and the one that will probably give us the most knowledge about ourselves.

1. Mimetic creativity

This type of creativity focuses on copying, imitating or reproducing something exactly the same. It is a basic and not very elaborate type of creativity, since even animals are capable of developing it.

2. Analog creativity

Analogies allow us to solve more complex problems. They serve to  transfer information that we understand and master in order to solve new challenges. Ultimately, they give rise to new ideas.

3. Bi-sociative creativity

This type of creativity occurs when our rational thinking connects with intuitive thinking. It is what we could call the Eureka moment! or insight. Bi-sociative creativity allows us to connect an idea that is familiar to us with another that is not, with the aim of generating a different concept.

4. Narrative creativity

It is reflected in the ability to create stories. The stories usually follow a consistent order. Characters, actions, descriptions, plots, storytelling and grammar are related and linked. Since it is very easy to reconstruct these stories and create something new, so it can be very useful to think in different ways.

5. Intuitive creativity

In this sense, intuition has to do with the ability to receive ideas and create them in our own minds  without the need for external images. Thus, emptying our mind or setting aside for a moment the reasoning systems that we have automated will prepare the right ground for our intuitive creativity to emerge.

In a practical sense, to achieve this we can do meditation, yoga or another type of activity that allows us to create a state of consciousness such that we can empty the mind and relax. In this way, we will create a fluid state of consciousness that allows ideas to come easily.

In addition to these types, creativity goes through a process that consists of other smaller processes: revision and exploration, the problems that arise and the solutions that we find to solve them, the creative solution (Eureka) and, for Finally, put our idea into practice and see if it is effective.

In addition to this process, we need certain resources to help us on our “creative path”:  intelligence and knowledge, motivation and personality. Without these three elements it will be very difficult for us to be creative.