The Creative Habit

After finishing up Twyla’s book, I think that I gained a lot more from it than I thought I would. Originally I didn’t think that a book could really make you come to a realization in your own life, and that those are things that just come to you, but Twyla Tharp’s book really did just that. I think that it went beyond just the idea of discussing what “creativity is”, because there really is no one explanation for it. 

The book allowed a person to dig deep into their inner thoughts and ideas to pull the creativity out of them. Its as if creativity is not something learned, its something that everyone has but not everyone uses. I think creativity is very hard to define because it can differ for every person. It’s partially the process of developing new ideas, mixed with a little bit of previous ideas and some personal touch added to it. 

Creativity is going to be that factor that makes a person stick out, which is why it is important to teach. I think that when you’re trying to get a job, they are going to look for the person who did something different, or who’s motives in what they did had meaning behind them. So it can impact a person socially by the person’s attention they grab. When thinking of creativity on a personal matter, it works the same way.

 A person will feel like they have reached an even greater goal when they do it in a creative process. So you see, there is a lot that goes into being “creative”. The book really did a good job at making a person realize this, and giving structure on how they should go about finding, and maintaining their own creative habit.