It is absolutely necessary to be creative
because it allows novel ideas and approaches for problem solving as well as
day-to-day activities. On Easter, I spent the day at my roommate’s house in
Cleveland, where we “played” with her younger cousins. We pretended to be the
characters in Cinderella. I was nominated by one of the cousins to be the evil
step mom. Although I had seen the movie many times and knew the basis of this
pretending game, I was nervous to commit to character. Looking back, I think I
was honestly nervous to disappoint the girls we were playing with. It was also
kind of weird telling this 5-year-old Cinderella to clean the floors, etc. I
began playing my part hesitantly, speaking gently when asking “Cinderella” to
scrub. She quickly scolded me, telling me to add sass to my voice. Before long
we were playing, being consumed as she reminded me of one of my favorite Disney
movies. An hour flew by and we escalated the story farther than the movie ever
had. I had not crawled on the floor, pretending this much in years.
1. My
perspective on creativity was revamped after the workshop Wednesday because I
have began thinking that creativity and creative thinking was correlated with
intense thinking and although it can involve elevated thinking, I think this
workshop reminded me that you can also be creative when with all tasks. I don’t
know if my idea changed or if I was just reminded of how creative I was as a 5
year-old.
2. I
think that the activity reminded me that creativity doesn’t have to come in
only in business/ professional forms. It was interesting to be reverted into
scrambling on the ground and having time fly past, as we got lost in our
activities. I think that this activity reminded me to remember the simplicity
of play. It is important to keep that in mind when tackling daily activities. An
example would be to reinvent ways of doing routine tasks. Finding a new way to
clean, a more effective way to study or a fun, new path to class all encourage
creative thinking on a daily business.
3. Creativity
has been important in this challenge because it has helped our team determine a
new way to approach it. Last semester my team reached out to companies through
emails and phone calls and did not receive any feedback. This challenge we
reached out to Alumni and senior BLF members to gain new perspectives on the
challenge as well as contacting potential companies. We have been creative by
reaching out to people we could make connections with.
Making the golf course was so much fun,
mainly because it was the first time in years I scrambled around, crafting,
being innovative as well as creative throughout this challenge that was
inspired by Caine, a 9 year-old boy.
