me, creative?
I think that all people are creative in some shape or form. However, the degree of creativity varies from person to person. Personally, I would say I would be on the lower end of the creativity spectrum. I am very self-efficient when it comes to doing a task. I am a quick learner, so I only need to be shown something once or twice before I can complete the task on my own. Yet, in a way that seems to be how I would rather complete a lot of my tasks. I would rather be shown or told what to do than to come up with it on my own. In certain situations, if I need to be creative I can certainly do so, but creativity isn’t one of my top personality traits. Some of the minimal examples of my creativity would in fact be this YouConnect project. I chose to do a blog because I felt it was going to be the easiest setting for me to complete the assignment. When I say easiest, I mean that I don’t have to worry about the format, or making sure I have a certain number of pages. I am able to dictate how long each individual post is and the content it contains. I am able to show off my understanding of the material in a way that my generation has grown up using, the internet. Of course, this idea was sparked by my professor as he gave us a list of ideas to work with.. I would go as far to say that my creativity is situational. Unless truly depended on to come up with a new idea, I would rather leave that area to someone else. In my own defense, I would say that I actually have a lot of different ideas I just choose not to voice them in the fear of being shutdown or rejected. I tend to be more creative on my own than in the presence of others. Not the best way to show my creativity, but this way I only have to impress myself, and most of the time, that’s enough for me.
