Creativity Never Hurt No One

When we look at the impact of social change, I think its important not to ignore the little peices of moral fibre it requires to stand for something. I'm under the impression that 85% of the western world truly believe that global warming is an existing problem for the near future. The issue that today's society faces, is that in order to create a change we have to make a decision to change the way we behave in our daily lives. Cresting social change demands that we actually stand for something and make a difference. This is clear in Erica's lecture reflecting on her work dealing with victims of domestic violence and indigenous youth. I think it's important that we identify that there are a lot of problems that we will face in the near future, but a common reaction is to not do anything about it

Cybernetic and robotic agents have long played an important part Of human development and overall creativity. This weeks topic covers the cultural discourse existing between biological and technological constructs. If we look at the history of artificial intelligence, through a cinematic standpoint, we see a weariness to allow artificial intelligence to exist, and an underlying fear of humans becoming obsolete. Specifically In Australia, being obselete is a common theme in the modern day household, where the fear of losing ones job has beckme too common. This traces cultural legacy of machines and the Perceived fears that an alien (use alien loosely) may have an impact on the future of society.

It would be wonderful to have the ability to solve all problems efficiently and in a timely fashion without difficulty, unfortunately there is no one way in which all problems can be solved. Personally, problems that i need to solve are mainly focused on time allocation, between university study, work and sporting commitments. Prioritizing them generally focuses on how difficult it will be to complete. and if i can break it down into individual tasks in order to have a set path to reach my goal.

As we are covering the toolbox for idea generation, i ironically find it hard to come up with ideas to discuss relating to this week s topic.   this week we discussed  A toolbox for idea generation Which essentially outlined a couple of methods that one can use to provoke thought. Which got me thinking, is thought so easily provoked.  Perturbed thoughts have taught us to think widely and deeply, but do these methods really do such a thing. I’ve noticed that many of these methods create a shallow generation of ideas where one essentially blurts out things from the top of their head and shapes there idea afterwards. but this doesn’t devalue or hinder the thought. I’ve always preferred the sharpness of a well thought out idea 

that being said innovation and motivation exist like a yin yang type thing. where just influencing an idea isn’t enough to exact a change.

Despite our intelligence and immense creative potential, human beings are still very good at pointing out the things that make us suspicious because they are seemingly impossible. in terms of Creativity It’s almost as if life tries to thwart out the part of us that inspires and creates. In the typical sense of the word, One might take creativity to be a artistic term, relating to painting or photography, and in this sense creativity can become a sacrifice of a different life. All the choices we make reflect later on in our future, and can create precedents to how we react to life’s mysteries. (Reluctantly being Cliche) if we look at Robert Frost’s poem “the Road Not Taken” we see parallels towards this idea. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference So in this sense, what stops creativity is the sacrifices we have to make to pursue it. I understand that creativity doesnt belong to one genre and that there is an entire grey area of life where we can try to have it all, but I think that making a choice is also making a sacrifice.  Sylvia Plath’s ‘The Bell Jar’ reiterates this. “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.” This got weird...

Coming into this unit, I have been curious about what exactly I’m going to learn from this. I have been asked to create a blog (something I haven't done since I was 16) and create considered responses towards the topics covered through the semester.  So here goes. This week’s content was an introduction into the unit “”Creativity and Innovation”. Creativity being classified “ as the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination” (dictionary.com): and Innovation being “ something new or different introduced” (dictionary.com). For this week we have been given resources to read or view, that introduce us to the unit. So after doing research on the resources provided, the resource that stuck with me, has been Steven Johnson’s video “ WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM”. To me, the video is the most interesting because it is the most creative. not that I don’t enjoy reading a solid handful of pear reviewed articles, but presenting information this way made me feel far more invested in the unit.  Johnson states that “we want to be more creative”. and I’m like “yeah... I do want to be more creative” end.