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Is Iphone invention of creativity?

What Is creativity??

‘Invention is never exhausted. Man never uses up the creative ideas which exist principally because he is changing every day, every generation…’ ‘Creativity is a young person’s gift and an adult’s duty…’

Have you ever wanted to be an inventor or a scientist? Have you ever felt that you could be an artist or a poet? Of course, we all have, but few of us do anything about it. Why? Are creators accidents? The lives of great creators hint that their gifts are the result of design.

Creativity is natural to man; it is his imagination in action. Discovery and invention and art happen when a person uses his imagination to its fullest extent. Ideas are in the air like invisible seeds, and they drift into our minds every day. The question is how to nurture raw ideas so that they burst into flowering creations. Openness of mind like wide fields is needed, and very fertile earth i.e., good imagination. Some of us have more creativity than others, of course, but a person has to try his creative powers before he can know their limits.

What is this thing called imagination? What is creation? How does creativity lead to invention, discovery and artistic productions? Here are a few hints. Imagination is a relaxed and carefree flow of the stream of mind’s thoughts. Imagination controlled is creation. Invention and discovery are creation acting in nature. Artistic creations are man’s emotions expressed beautifully. First comes a nimble imagination, and then comes the forging of something original…something inventive…something artistic. This is how man invents and makes art.

For animals other than man change is a question of meeting new circumstances. The rat can learn to run through a paddy field by trial and error. Once he learns the shortest path through a paddy field he never has the whim to take the longer path from time to time. Animals only adapt to the conditions of life.

Man is more than adaptive, he is creative. Man goes out of his way to make conditions requiring new adaptations.

Man has a free mental spirit and this free spirit is what makes man a man. As soon as he had it, man had learned how to invent.

Invention is never exhausted. Man never uses up the creative ideas which exist, principally because he is changing every day, every generation. Man sees new beauty around him; he has a changing outlook and perception of nature.

Why did Guglielmo Marconi invent radio, while his brother Alfonso remained obscure? Both were raised in the same family group and had many common early experiences. Yet one became a world-renowned inventor and the other was known only because of his brother’s fame. What made the difference? At some time or other Marconi must have begun to see things differently from his brother. He must have been more curious or more interested in things. His curiosity and enthusiasm may have developed out of some experience or from some book he read.

Most creators are actually made and not born. Creators are normal people in all respects, including their ability to create. Time glorifies their lives and makes a Galileo or a Michelangelo.

They all lived and ate and slept and died like all human beings. Creators are an example to the rest of mankind of just how great normal human beings can become. It is not that creators are exceptional and superior. Creators are exceptional only because most of us do not use the powers which man by his nature possesses. The problem is to see that we make ourselves as creative as our native talents allow.

So I invite each of my readers to take life as a challenge, use all your ideas - be it small or big - take time to nurture them and be creative and you could be the Galileo or Michelangelo or Marconi or Charles Babbage of today or tomorrow.

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