Importance of Creativity: You as a Creative Person

Importance of Creativity by Mitchel Tetteh, Lecturer (Design and illustration), SFD Ghana.

The fashion industry strives on creativity. From the very moment the need to cover the nakedness of mankind creativity rose. Creativity moves the world. Creativity enables easy work in every sector and every aspect of life. 

In fact creativity is never limited to the arts. The doctor, administrator, teacher, the nurse, banker etc, have ways they express creativity in their respective professions. 

Some creative behaviours

Daydream/fantasize. According to Kaufman and psychologist Rebecca L. McMillan, co-authors of a paper titled “Ode to Positive Constructive Daydreaming,” mind-wandering can aid in the process of “creative incubation.” 

The creative person is always looking for something to do. He is always looking for faults, imperfections etc. to correct, where with creative fashion designer and with designers in general, the clause ‘IF’ is in great use. If it’s here and not there, what happens? As he does this to his environment, to his room furniture, in the office, as a creative, he does it to the garments he sees worn by people in the streets etc. and he cause change and evoke new ideas to the garments to set pace in the industry.

1. Observe everything/ being observant.
2. Peculiar working hours
3. Solitude/ time to be alone
4. Turn obstacles around
5. Easily bored
6. Seek new experiences
7. playful
8. Fail-up freak/ risk taking
9. Ask the self questions
10. People-watch
11. Follow passion
12. Builds to enter flow state/ looses self
13. Surrounds self with beauty
14. Connects the dots
15. Avoids monotony/one way/routine
16. Meditation

Thinking outside the box

There must be a box, the way things are done, and then outside the box meaning the manoeuvring around the way things are done to effect extraordinary results.

Practically as student creatives in our school environment

He offers to help in time of need. He is the last man to say no to duty. When everybody is running away from the job, although might be shy, masters courage and sees what he can do to save the situation. This must be within his passion though.

His creativity affects his environments. He is very curious about presentation. His environment is receptive and welcoming although he has his ugly studios. He sees to it he cleans the mess in the studios from time to time because a messy studio cannot encourage creativity. What then should happen in our studios after work although we know there are cleaners?

The creative person carries this cleanliness to the streets. And that is how the society can benefit from this creative person’s creativity. He does not wish to see filth so he will not litter his environments though he knows there are cleaners. The cleaners are paid with your taxes so when you deal with your filth and there is no filth to clean, the cleaners will be served with other duties which will help cater for your other needs in society. 

The creative person needs peaceful environment to create thus he creates this environment for society. Conflict, strife, fighting, friction, envy never encourage creativity. The creative person never or should not get angry with another person rather he attacks the issue. He can be mad at himself for not ceasing an opportunity to express himself better. He is friendly, and he encourages peace in his environment all the time. Mind you, your contender can make you angry to distract you from making good designs to win a contract he biding with you.

To conclude, Creativity is lived. When you are a creative person, it must show with you. The way you express yourself, carry yourself around, your speech, when you solve it well another way. Creativity is when you use what everybody has differently. Creativity is not when you expose nudity/nakedness on campus in the name of fashion.

This piece of article was presented by Mr. Mitchel Tetteh during a ceremony in Accra.