Blocks To Creativity & Conducing Factors To Creativity
Blocks To Creativity & Conducing Factors To Creativity
Presented By:
Nishchal Kinger – 1720991100
Kartik Sharma - 1720991073
Blocks to Creativity
Here are Some of the Following Factors that Affect
the Creativity of an Individual:
Environmental Block
People Block
Mental Block
Emotional Barrier
Personal Problems
Poverty
Communication Problems
Environmental Block
Environments can be supportive as well as
obstructive. Effective creative environments can
vary with people and moods. If you want to be
creative, it can be a good idea to go offsite.
People Block
We are highly social creatures and even the thought
that a complete stranger may find us ridiculous is
enough to make most of us lose our mind. We are
also competitive and judgmental which can easily
lead us to evaluating others and their ideas.
Mental Block
This is where you get trapped by your own thinking.
You’re so locked into a familiar way of looking at the
world that you fail to see other options. You make
assumptions and approach a problem from a limited idea.
If a person has self-doubt, you can never be creative
Emotional Barrier
Creativity can be intense. It’s not a comfortable search.
Faced with the unknown, you may be scared of what
you’ll discover or reveal about yourself. Maybe your
subject matter is painful, embarrassing or plain weird.
Personal Problems
Creativity demands focus. And it’s hard to concentrate if
you’re getting divorced/ facing an addiction/ falling out
with your loved ones/ grieving someone special/ locked
in a dispute with someone, etc. If you’re lucky, you’ll
only have to deal with this kind of thing one at a time,
but troubles often come in twos or threes.
Poverty
Poverty not only means problems about money, although
lack of money is a major problem for a person to be
creative. A person can also be short of time, knowledge,
resources, have a shabby network or lack of equipment
or other things you need to focus to be creative.
Communication Problems
Creative blocks can happen in front of you as well
as behind your back. If you work in a team, tensions
are to be expected, and can make it hard to do your
best work. A person needs to be open minded and
there should be free flowing communication
between the people. Especially if you have one of
those disturbing people in your working life.
Conducive Factors to
Creativity
Here are Some of the Following Factors that
Influence the Creativity of an Individual:
Experiences
Fearlessness
Desire
Space and Time
Healthy Diet
Fresh Air and a Walk
Atmosphere and Environment
Experiences
Experiences are a key player in creative thinking,
the more you experience more influenced you get.
These experiences define your ideas and creativity
which are presented through your work.
Fearlessness
Fearlessness is a major factor having impact on
one’s creativity. A person who thinks that he is not
creative can never be. Having doubts is ok, but
being worried about the success of an idea clearly
shows that you lack faith in your ideology.
Desire
Desire is a factor of creativity which is often
ignored, but it is as essential as any other condition
for growing as a creative individual. Experts say
that, if you simply don’t want to change things then
you won’t.
Space and Time
Productivity may increase under pressure but
creativity has no positive influence if the proper
space and right amount of time is not provided. It
will take time to achieve something truly original
and creative.
Healthy Diet
Need a better reason to get healthy and proper diet?
What can be more convincing than the fact that it
makes you more creative.
Fresh Air and a Walk
It is a proven fact that people with fresh mind are
more creative than those who are lazy. You must
have done this often whenever you felt stuck but it
actually has an awesome positive impact on your
nervous system. Researchers at the Stanford
Graduate School of Education found that walking
may actually help stimulate creative ideas.
Atmosphere & Environment
Yes, it is all about the world around us. Atmosphere
and environment both go hand in hand to influence
an individual’s creativity levels. Although
innovation and creativity can emerge in a variety of
settings and situations, some environments are more
conducive to the creative process. In one large study,
it was found that having a vision, being task-
oriented, and engaging in external communication
had a strong relationship to creativity and
innovation.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
QUESTIONS
1) Communication Barrier(s) in the international environment
is (are) :
(A) Systematic
(B) Continuous
(C) Long
(D) None of the above
Answer : B - Continuous
3) View _____ as _____ that offer the opportunity to
innovate :
Answer : B - Clients