

So, what is actually active in our brain when we are doing something creatively? That’s always been extremely hard to track as creativity has always been considered a very vague activity. And yet, there is still a very distinct process behind it: Our brain on creativity: The example of free-style rap

This applies to every field Flaherty explains, including programming, business, mathematics together with the more traditional “creative” fields, such as music or drawing. After all, creativity, at its very core, boils down to this: “A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful (or influential) in a particular social setting.” – Alice Flaherty In fact, we are all extremely creative.Īnd the following science will hopefully prove it, in case you ever had any doubts about your own creativity. The truth, which I was very happy to discover, is that any and everybody is creative. For today, I finally decided to research and read up on the latest studies of creativity and the science behind it. In school, what was considered “being creative”, like writing or drawing nice pictures was never my strength. If so, I thought at first, that’s definitely a downer. Could it really be that some of us are born to be more creatively gifted than others? “I’m not really a creative person”, always struck me as an odd sentence.
