Creativity

All of people in the world have their own choise to make their own decision and their life also. As we know, people are social creatures that always need helps from others. Many people use their creativity to face this world, independently or dependently. Actually, each person in this world has a very large place of imagination and creativity, but the development depends on each person’s characteristic whether they are lazy or not. Developing our thought is very important to fight our world, because people who have many innovations from their creativity can be the winners in this cruel life.

To have innovations, people must have creativity which guides themselves to make their innovation. So, what is creativity? According to Linda Naiman, creativity is “the process of bringing something new into being”. Here we can also say that creativity is the thought or idea of making something new. But if we just think all the time; we think of this; what can we do with this; we only imagine, we only think, and that is not enough to make innovations. So what do we need to make innovations besides imaginations? The answer is act! If we can act with our imaginations or creativity, we can make any innovation. There is nothing impossible if we want to act.

There are a lot of innovations that we can find in this world. One big example of innovation in this world is the invention of T-shirt. Today’s T-shirt’s shape is originally invented when the U.S Navy engaged in Spanish American War. They used it as undershirt, underneath their uniforms.

As the time goes by, the functions of T-shirt has changed. When the first inventors of this thing used T-shirt as their second clothes, now T-shirt has became primary clothes, even T-shirt has became a very popular media to make money, it is now a very popular industry, especially for young people. One of the world’s famous T-shirt brands is Drop Dead Clothing.
Another brilliant idea has been spread by Mark Zuckerberg and friends. Mark worked together with Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes, invented a social network that now becomes a lifestyle to many people, Facebook™. At the beginning, they used this site only with their room-mates. But as the time goes by, this site became popular in their college, Harvard University, and becomes very very popular in this world. What make them so success? They have great imagination, creativity, and vision. Moreover, they want to act to make their imagination became real. They change their imagination into innovation!

In the other side, creativity can also be a factor of destruction. We can imagine if there is a man who has a very brilliant idea and this man develops his idea into a great innovation, but this innovation is used by the wrong people to make chaos and afflictions to others. One of the examples is Einstein’s regret. He regrets about his invention of nuclear that became the atomic technology and used by Germans to make atomic bomb. “Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in developing atomic bomb, I would have done nothing.” We may conclude that even we have a brilliant innovation, but if we cannot handle it with care, it can be a bad thing to this world.

Great creativity and vision are very needed to make the whole world know our innovations. If we have creativity and we already have our innovations, it will be useless if people don’t know about it. Who will know if we only keep our innovations? No one! So, we need to tell people what we have. One simple way to tell people what we have is just show off. We can use our innovations and just show off to people around us, and it is can be guaranteed that these people will be interested to our innovations and also have a lot of question about our innovations. By doing that, we just spread our knowledge, our idea. But remember, handle our innovations with care, so that it will not be troubles for us.


Bibliography

T-shirt. Retrieved May 25, 2010, from http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shirt

Naiman, L. Creativity at Work: Articles and Tips. Retrieved May 25, 2010, from the Creative at Work Web Site: http://www.creativityatwork.com/articlesContent/whatis.htm

(1979). Cover: The Year of Dr. Einstein. Time Inc, TIME.com. Originally posted on February 19, 1979. Retrieved May 25, 2010, from http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912381-11,00.html




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