Dave Place, frontman of east coast pop-rock band Phone Calls From Home, sheds some light for us on his thoughts on creativity. He explains how we are taught in a uniform manner, however, “[e]verything man-made was “created”.” Check out his full thoughts on this subject below, and you can check out his website where he goes into deep thought about other similar matters as well, here.
As odd as it sounds, schools teach us not to take risks. We need to write our papers in the right format, pick the write answers for the test, and do our projects on 3-panel poster boards. When you go outside the lines too far, you get punished. We are taught to cooperate and to follow along. We are rewarded for our intelligence. Creativity is usually forgotten about.
When you get older and start a career, it usually ends up the same way. You need to do your job the way it is set up for you. Don’t stray from the path. Don’t think you have a better plan, keep with the plan given to you.
Creativity is a talent and a type of intelligence that is overlooked too often. The imaginative people of the world create our future and the intelligent engineers build it. Everything man-made was “created”. Every movie you’ve ever seen, every song you’ve heard, every building you’ve passed by, every city you’ve been too, and every item you’ve ever used was created by a creative person for the sake of humanity. So is a high creative intelligence more important than a high IQ? I’m not sure, but I don’t think it’s any less important.
