How important is Creativity?

I am defining creativity as any kind of problem solving dealing with any kind of problem.

How important is this in our personnal development, emotional well being, social standing, attractiveness to the opposite sex, etc.

Have our opportunities to excel at things deminsihed over the ages?

Our we successfully evolving to accept rolls in life that are less defining?

What is the next big thing to come along that will revive the spirit of creativity for a significant part of humanity ( compare to the computer age)

Creativity as defined by you is the difference between the ever-advancing human race and a scruffy semi-upright ape-creature dodging lions on the African plains.

It is what makes us…us.

Thats exactly what I was thinking about when I posted this. Mans brain evolved back when he faced constant life or death issues. Besides eating and staying warm he had to figure how how to form a society, how to win wars, all aspects of science were wide open and most had not even been discovered yet. We could get by just fine with a lot less brain simply because we aren’t faced with the same kind of issues. Or do we really need to be creative to thrive?

That’s the definition of problem-solving, not the definition of creativity. Creativity is certainly involved in lots of problem-solving, but some solving of problems is strictly routine procedure-following, and some creativity doesn’t really involve solving a problem.

I wasn’t very clear on that. I was reffering to instances where thinking outside the box may provide a better solution.

Your spelling is very creative. :stuck_out_tongue:

I think we have many more opportunities to be creative today than ever before. With so many new things there are more opportunities to use them in new ways, as opposed to 99% of people being peasant farmers who barely stayed alive doing things the old ways, and who did not have the resources to risk doing things a new way.
Look at the greater opportunities for writers - maybe lots of ebooks are crap, but they are examples of people being creative.
I can testify that creativity that works gets you more money - not sure about attractiveness to the opposite sex, though. Only members of the opposite sex who are creative and a bit odd. (My favorites.)
It is not that everyone is creative - many people seem happy just to go through life absorbing other people’s creative output, not making some of their own. But people who are creative can express it more easily now.

It’s useful, and it’s also fun! It’s what makes us people, and not merely insects.

The arts are all about creativity that is not geared at solving problems, but for the purpose of expression.