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.