3/15/2009

Creativity vs. Imagination




After walking through our church this morning I felt of a sense of satisfaction with all that we accomplished this week with such a short turn around. 

 Yes it almost killed me, but I felt good about what we accomplished.  Sure there are things that I will fix this week, because there always is. But it got me thinking a lot about creativity.

Creativity isn't creativity if it's just an idea.  That's called imagination.  

Creativity: having the quality or power of creating.

If you are just an idea guy.  You may call yourself a creative, I'll call you an imaginary.  

2 comments:

Bryan said...

amen brother. preach it.
--bryan

Anonymous said...

Imagination is dangerous, especially when it is not recognized as fake. People often dwell in their imaginations, absorbing the invented concepts. This is how mind control works, by having people imagine concepts which are then accepted as mental fabrications, but of real things. This is when you being to lose your mind, your relationships begin to suck, and become a mass of quivering nothingness. Failure and stupidity occur when people depart from reality via imagination.

Creativity is not imagination. It is not essentially related to imagination. By staying close to the metal (reality) we can be most creative because we have as much information about the real as possible. Creativity is a conclusion made by the mind based on its content (strictly speaking, the mind cannot create out of nothing, although it can produce concepts which which are imaginary and without a shred of reality to them). Expressing that creativity is called communication (and work).