Creativity and Human

Relations
What Creativity is NOT: (the common misconcepcion)
Many have made the mistake of linking creativity to traditional intelligence. Intelligence
is a factor in creativity development however its not the primary source.
What Creativity really is:
o Intuition:
(direct perception or insight)
has been shown to be much more important to creativity thatn scholastic
ability.
o Frank Barron:
You dont have to have a high IQ to be intuitive.
Intuition depends less on reasoning and verbal comprehension (the main
device used to measure IQ) than it does on feelings and metaphor.
Collective Habits of Thought:
Habit is the stumbling block to creativity. Groups often have their own beliefs about
what should be done and how. Both as individuals and as groups, we need to get past the old,
established ways of seeing things if we are going to be creative.
Perception:
It is the way we view the world. It is also the way you think about or understand someone
or something. Looking at the world from different angles makes a great difference in how
creatively we deal with that world, and how we solve problems.

Creative Intelligences
1. Language
o People who are gifted writers, poets, songwriters, and speakers fall into this category. If
you love language and are fascinated by its meanings, expressions, and rythms, your
intelligence falls into this category.
2. Math and Logic
o Scientists and mathematicians find pleasure in using the logical, reasoning parts of the
brain. Most of the standardized intelligence tests measure ability levels in this area.
3. Music
o Most people who intelligence falls into this category have fond relationship with sound.
As children, they likely tried to produce new combinations of sounds on their own.
4. Spatial reasoning
o A person who excels in this area has a knack for seeing how elements fir together in
space. This type of intelligence can be expressed by building things, or by perfecting the

art of flying a hand glider. The talent is physical mechanical, rather than tied to ideas and
concepts.
5. Movement
o Traditionally, we haventt thought of physical movement as a part of intelligence. But the
ability to use your body or parts of your body to solve problesms is a type of intelligence.
Athletes and ballet dancers are examples of people who excel in this area.
6. Interpersonal intelligence
o This area of intelligence deals with ones abilty to understand and deal with the world of
people. It is an essential skill in all aspects of life, and particularly important in business.
7. Intrapersonal intelligence
o It means knowledge of oneself. A person with a large amount of this type of intelligence
knows his or her own strengths and weaknesses, desires, and fears, and can act on that
knowledge realistically.

Strategies to Increase Creativity

1. Get into the open mode.
o

Open mode - the feeling is relaxed, expansive and less purposeful. We tend to let things
come as they may- we tend to be more thoughtful and; we smile more often

2. Think of yourself as a creative person.

o Self-perception - An awareness of the characteristics that constitute one's self;
knowledge.

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3. Learn to see problems as opportunities.

4. Look for more than one or two solutions to a problem.
o Either/ or Fallacy - This approach sees only one of two extremes as possible for
solution, without really looking at the great number of compromises and other creative
choices that might exist between the two extremes.
o The 2nd right answer - Thinking of an idea as a letter in the alphabet (A-Z).
5. Learn to play the violin.
o Being able to take risk is one way to elicit creativity. Its about getting out of your
comfort zone.
6. Turn your ideas into actions.
7. Dont be afraid to break rules.
o The Aslan Phenomenon
o We make rules based on reasons that make a lot of sense.
o We follow these rules.
o Time passes, and situations change. The original reasons for the generation of
these rules may no longer exist, but the rules are still in place and we continue to
follow them.

8. Dont be afraid to make mistakes.

Creative Methods for Groups

Brainstorming
o A conference technique of solving specific problems, amassing
information, stimulating creative thinking, developing new ideas etc.,
by unrestrained and spontaneous participation in discussion.
First Session

Second Session

1. Participants speak in phrases.

1. Return to rational mode.

2. Hitchhiking on others ideas is encourage.

2. All ideas are analyzed and prioritized.

3. Criticism is forbidden.

3. Idea duplications are eliminated.

4. Silliness is encouraged.

4. Ideas are ranked in order of importance.

5. Climate is relaxed.

5. Everyone gives evaluative input, just as all

gave creative input in Session One.

6. All ideas are recorded and quantity of ideas

encouraged.

Nominal Group Method

o It is designed to provide a structure that encourages individual creativity within a
group framework. The reason we call it nominal is because the members are
actually a group in name only.
o Steps on doing it
1. Each employee puts his or her ideas down in writing.
2. The leader lists all of the ideas up on a board or chart where everyone
can see them.
3. The leader leads a discussion to clarify the ideas and to add new ones.
4. Each group member rates the ideas and votes; the voting eliminates
other ideas at this point.
5. After the vote, there is a brief discussion of the voting results. The
purpose is to clarify points, not to pursuade anyone.
6. The group casts a final vote to select the proposals that will be used.

Prepared by:
ARGEL JOSEPH Z.COCHICO
MAED English