What is creativity? 

Creativity is a process of creating new and imaginative ideas into existence.

It is an ability to perceive the world in a new different way, along with innovations, experimentation, reference and the ability to give new better results.

Creativity is there in all of us. When we were kids, we use to see things in new ways, our minds were fresh and had new prospective of thinking, and we did not have any data to disturb our thinking process.

As a kid every new data which comes to our mind for the first time is a wonder, imagining impossible things was easy. This process makes creativity abundant, with imagination at its peak.

As we grow up, we become more familiar with the information around us and start storing data in our minds. The skill of impossible imagination gets faded over some time and we create boundaries of information. That’s how we get trapped into the information bounders and stop thinking out of the box.

Creativity opens the mind, it helps our mind to go beyond such boundaries, and it helps us to think out of the box. It allows viewing and solving problems more openly and with innovation.

Creativity helps with the problem–solving. 

When there is a problem and you try to find solutions for it, creative thinking opens up the possibilities of thing process; it allows you to look at the situation from a different perspective. Many a time you get stuck on solutions that you always had used in the past and have been stored as information in your mind. This might still get the work done, but it could have been done in a more different creative way which can open better possibilities to perform the same work in better ways.

The most creative people find ways around obstacles because they see them not just as roadblocks but also as opportunities to find new ways. Creativity expands our perceptions and along with expanded perceptions come new ways of problem-solving. Creativity helps you to be unique and innovative.

Your Creativity can solve problems in a better way in all areas of your life. Your creative side helps you to understand the situation from all angles, instead of thinking from a past linear, logical approach. It unblocks old patterns or habits of thinking. It allows for non-linear thinking.

Studies had shown that creative people can handle uncertain situations in better ways because they can adapt their thinking be on the stored information to allow for the flow of the unknown.

Creativity can help you to live longer. 

In a study published by Scientific American Magazine, researchers showed that creativity exercises a handful of neural networks in the brain, which keeps your brain healthy same as we do physical exercise to keep our body healthy. By keeping your mind active, you’re essentially working out the brain muscle, like all exercises. This keeps you healthier, so you live longer.

Creativity releases stress? 

Creativity always allows you to do something new and innovative this helps decrease negative emotions and reduces stress. From the above topic which we have discussed and understood that creativity helps with problem-solving this itself reduces stress and anxiety. It’s a simple formula, Creativity helps solve problems in all areas of life, and once the problems are solved, there is no stress, which leads to a healthy stress-free life and can help us live longer.

Creativity connects you to yourselves. 

When you are in a process of thinking out of the box and being creative you land up discovering your passion, things that you like to do, and things that give you lots of satisfaction and happiness. It opens your hearts and doors to your mind. It brings you to hidden parts of yourselves. It allows recognition of uniqueness and identity. It can help draw out what is already there within you – hidden talents and inner capacities can emerge. It connects you with your passions. It connects you to yourselves. And once you are connected to your passion, to yourself you start performing better, you can feel a sense of achievement in your work, you are happy, you become satisfied, and success comes easily to you, which in return can make you wealthy.

Creativity makes you more productive. 

Creative people are full of ideas and whatever goes around them; they get inspiration and start finding new and better ways of doing things. This often makes creative people more productive because they bring more to the world by bringing new, better and innovative things than someone who doesn’t open their minds to what’s around them. Non-Creative people perform as per the old past information which is there in their mind, they keep doing things within the boundaries of the information that they have from past experiences. They do not put extra effort, whereas creative people put extra effort, get inspired, and find new ways to solve problems as well, which sparks innovations and increases efficiency and makes them more productive. It’s a valued skill in any field.