Creativity: Resources, Quizzes, and Discussion Questions

‘Creativity’ Definitions

• the ability to create
• the ability to produce or use original and unusual ideas:
• the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination:

Videos

• The Creative Brain (Trailer)
• A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity | Tim Harford
• Creativity: The science behind the madness | Rainn Wilson, David Eagleman & more | Big Think
• Do Schools Kill Creativity?

• How to build your creative confidence | David Kelley – YouTube
• Debate- Technology is destroying our creativity
• YouTube – The Curse of Creativity

• Imagination: the power of creativity | Tom Bates | TEDx
• Creative thinking – how to get out of the box and generate ideas

 

Articles

• The Circuitry of Creativity: How Our Brains Innovate Thinking
• Are Smartphones Killing Our Creativity?
• Why Creativity Isn’t Just Important for ‘Creative’ Jobs
• Considering AI’s Role in Creativity as Robot Sells Painting for $700,000
• Why procrastination can help fuel creativity
• 9 Ways to Boost Your Creativity.
• The dark side of creativity

 

Quizzes & Quotes

• My Creative Type (마이 크리에이티브 타입 항목 15 해석)
• Creativity Quiz
• Only The Most Creative People Can Pass This Quiz
• Brainy Quotes: Creativity

 

Discussion Questions

1. What were the interesting parts of the materials you read or watched?
2. Do you consider yourself a creative person? In what ways?
3. What were the most creative times of your life?
4. What experiences have made you more or less creative?
5. Were you more creative as a child or are you more creative now?
6. When do you feel most creative these days? What makes you more or less creative?
7. Do you think some people are born more creative than others?
8. Do you think it’s possible to teach people how to be more creative? How so?
9. Who is the most creative person you know personally? What kind of things does he or she do?
10. Who do you think are some of the world’s most creative people?
11. What do you think is the true value of creativity in our society?
12. Is it possible for a person to be too creative or for a society to have too many creative people?
13. How has the education system in your country encouraged  creativity? (or not?)
    How should it?
14. Do you think the number of creative people in the world is increasing or decreasing?
15. What creation of yours are you most proud of?
16. Do you think animals can be creative?
    Do you think AI can be creative?
17. What do you think influences a person’s creativity?
    – wealth, age, diet, DNA, IQ, exercise, health, family, alcohol/drugs, travel, age government type, other?
18. Can you think of examples of creativity in…

• • music
  • sports
  • art
  • entertainment
  • technology
  • science
  • business
  • education
  • fitness
  • food
  • design/architecture

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