Defining Creativity

There’re thousand of different meanings in defining "creativity". Based on Wikipedia.com, creativity is a mental process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the existing ideas or concepts, fuelled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight. While Brainstorming.co.uk defined creativity is the bringing into being of something which did not exist before, either as a product, a process or a thought. Virtualsalt.com said that creativity is ability, an attitude and a process.

After finished studying those articles, I think that creativity is the capability to imagine or think up something new or something which did not exist before. Based on Virtualsalt.com, creativity is not the ability to create out of nothing, but the ability to generate new ideas and new concepts by combining, changing, or reapplying existing ideas.Creative thinking is the process which we use and apply when we come up with a new idea. For example, is brainstorming. Brainstorming works by combining someone's ideas with our own to create a new one. Creative thinking process can be accidental or deliberate.

Mind Mapping

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studyingand organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing.

The elements of a given mind map are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing semantic or other connections between portions of information. Mind maps may also aid recall of existing memories.

By presenting ideas in a radial, graphical, non-linear manner, mind maps encourage a brainstorming approach to planning and organizational tasks. Though the branches of a mindmap represent hierarchical tree structures, their radial arrangement disrupts the prioritizing of concepts typically associated with hierarchies presented with more linear visual cues. This orientation towards brainstorming encourages users to enumerate and connect concepts without a tendency to begin within a particular conceptual framework.

The mind map can be contrasted with the similar idea of concept mapping. The former is based on radial hierarchies and tree structures denoting relationships with a central governing concept, whereas concept maps are based on connections between concepts in more diverse patterns.

-Logical Mind Mapping

-Associated Mind Mapping

Example of Mind Mapping

this mind mapping that myfriend do for me in the class.in the class we have to choose our partner and then do the mind mapping about friend that we choose.after that we have to sketch he according the mind mapping we have do.

Words of Wisdom

"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seem like two hours. That's relativity"-Albert Einstein-