What keep us away from
exercising creative potential
Barriers
 Historical
 Biological
 Physiological
 Sociological
 psychological
historical
 History repeat itself
 Circles of civilization
 futile any attempt to change
 Plato’s concept
fatalistic individual
fatalistic society
 Little control over the life
Biological barrier
 Creative ability is a hereditary trait
 Environment is the major factor
Physiological barriers
 Brain damage
 Disease
 Accident
Beethoven was deaf
Sociological barriers
 Social environment affects our creative expression
 Creative expression involves personal risk
 Negative reaction to creative expression
 Retreat to feel accepted
Psychological barriers
 Self-imposed barriers
 Conformity or giving the answer expected
 Lack of effort in challenging the obvious
 Evaluating too quickly
 Fear of looking like a fool
Self-imposed barrier
 Difficult to recognize
 Conscious or unconscious
Conformity or giving the answer
expected
 Follows self-imposed barrier
 Conform to established pattern
Lack of effort in challenging the
obvious
 Any new idea is rejected automatically
 New idea come from a junior, a peer or even someone
out of department
 The rejecter has feeling of anger or jealousy at not
thinking of the idea himself
Evaluating too quickly
 Not easy to remove
 Automatic no response
 So the idea is buried and chance is lost
 Suspended judjment
Fear of looking like a fool
 Biggest barrier and the most difficult to remove
 Start very early in the life
 Creative people are prepared to take risks
 Laugh with not at the wild idea
creativity definition
 End product or innovation oriented
any process by which something new is
produced
 Expressive
decision to do something when you are irritated
 Psychoanalytic
 Solution thinking
divergent thinking
Creative field
 Creative process
 Creative person
 Creative product
 Creative place
Creative process
 The role of insight
 Level of creative process
 The need for product of such creative process
 Accessibility of unconscious elements
 Prolonged process
Creative person
 Cognitive characteristics
High intelligence, originality, articulateness, verbal
fluency, good imagination, flexibility and skills in
making decision, coping well with novelty, logical
thinking skills,
Creative person
 Personality characteristics
willingness to confront hostility and take intellectual
risks, being open to new experience and growth, high
intrinsic motivation, task focused, impact on the
people surround him
tolerance for ambiguity, broad range of interests, play
with ideas, valuing originality and creativity
Creative person
 Developmental characteristics
being a firstborn, having survived the loss of one or
both parents early in life, experiencing unusual
situations, being reared in stimulating home
environment, exposed to wide range of ideas, happier
with books than to people
Creative product
 Novel
 Powerful and generalizable
 Valuable and useful to the society
Creative place
 Educational and employment opportunities
 Background knowledge
 Styles and paradigm
 Good teachers