A drop of paint on canvas

I will start this, like I usually start my writings, with a question. Have you ever ask yourself how can a person be creative? You are probably THE creative friend, therefore wonder why people ask you the question. You also probably ask how can professional artists be creative? If you aren't the creative kind, like me, no matter... This isn't about any kind in particular, but an advice to how can someone be creative. How can someone be able to come up with ideas in an instant? Sometimes abnormal and out of the box ideas, but very, very logical. This isn't only about paintings, sketching, fiction writing... But the whole idea of, well, idealism. Creativity. I would like other views where people can be creative at the end of this post; opinions welcome anywhere.

How, then, can someone be creative? Is it talent? Is it luck? Did he just come up with the idea without thinking? Was she thinking about it at the time? The answer to all that is; Maybe. We'll never know unless one admits. Artists are always creative though, right? Here I refer artists to idealists. Creators.

Honestly, and I'm sure everyone cannot deny it, I think everyone IS creative. At any given time, given place. How, you may ask. One universal reason is that, you cannot be oblivious to the world. If I'm not mistake, Albert Einstein once said "Knowledge is Power". It's true, the more you know the more you can use information to extrapolate, manipulate, create, destroy, imagine, hope the happenings in this world. In a given situation where you have to be creative you will use your knowledge, various informations extracted int he past, to create something new. Say put something you read when you were in elementary school with something you watched just yesterday. Both information can win you over. Give a case study here; A kid read about cranes and pulleys when he was a kid. Now in his job he's told to carry a big load up a few steps. Yesterday he just watched a DIY show. He used his knowledge on cranes and pulleys' physics and the DIY tools to create a mini pulley for that particular job. That's being creative.

That is, more than less, true. There is yet one thing, maybe not the only one-other-thing but a big thing. One thing that affects our creativity.
A baby cannot be creative because he has not understood himself or the world. Kids between 3 to 7 years old are sometimes VERY creative it's illogical. That's because he has mastered the power of knowledge and understanding. New knowledge of the world, and the understanding of his own abilities. That is the other thing to being creative; To know and understand oneself in a new situation. the fact that one knows oneself well enough, very well actually, to be able to express. I can be very dull when coming to creating ideas that I never, ever say what my brain is storming in such situations. Now we know where I go wrong. You can laugh! HAHAHAHAH. Okay keep this writing serious...

When you think about it, your creativity can equalise what the 3-7 years-old kid imagined. The road to understanding yourself fully at this stage is hard. We grow, we experience, and we know more. We tend to shift ourselves... or being extreme, we change ourselves. Changing, growing, and experiencing ourselves to fit in our universal situation. I cannot say how exactly to be able to understand ourselves, you just do... After a long journey. In anyway, as our creativity range from dul lthings to very illogical things, equalising that of a mere kid, we barely blurt out our ideas. Here's where the fun comes in, I can tell even at an age of 25 and above, people will still have crazy ideas, but what stops them? Maturity. This is what also stops us from drawing elephants with wings. Ships that sail upside down. Cars that are driven by dogs.

here you have it, the key to creativity is knowing yourself and the world. By knowing the world you are fed various ideas from the dullest to the funnest. From the most corrupted of ideas to the most innovative. Also by knowing yourself you are able to express what is needed to be said and which kind of information is used for the situation.  Maybe that corrupted information you heard will create the most innovative inventions that saves the world. Mixed with the right innovative, fun, easy ingredients.