When someone uses their mental powers to bring something to life that did not previously exist it is said to be an exercise in creativity. This bringing to life of something can involve a new product or a process or even simply a new thought. People that are creatively inclined are able to do some very amazing things such inventing something that never existed previously.
When a person becomes creative it means that they have succeeded in mastering two very important processes which as thinking followed by producing. Being innovative is central to being creative and it involves being able to produce or implement an idea. Ideas by themselves are not worth much; it is only when you act on the idea that you are being creative. Not acting means that you are just being imaginative.
Another way of defining what being creative is is that it is a process that helps to give birth to something very new. Such an act implies having a lot of passion and being very committed as well. When a person starts being creative they will undoubtedly be dealing with myths as well as symbols.
When people are creative they do not necessarily have to invent or even develop new things; it is also about development of something that is novel to us. The more we change the more the world around us changes and in this way both the individual and the world are affected.
Creativity helps in making new products and processes and it also aids in improving existing services, products and processes. As a person becomes more creative they will improve themselves, their world, organization and even customers and in this way will make the world a lot happier.
So, people such as the Wright Brothers were creative because they could see things differently and they also had the intelligence and gumption to think about flying when such a thing had never been done before. Their vision and creative nature has certainly changed the world for the better.
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