Creativity

A very close friend / brother of mine, has decided to take some drawing lessons from me, i am obliged. Though i think am a little good with creativity mostly imagination. And yes after almost 10 years , i took up the drawing pencil and crayons, and it was fun. Now my job here is to train the kid learn some good art.

Well i have never been into instructional teaching, I have an observation that there are two types of mind, purely mathematical (who memorize or process mathematically) and the other imaginary (who memorize and process/calculate with media like sound , images / pictures). I am little of second category and my student of the first.

My student is a very fast learner, picks up easily, but the point is he is trying to learn to sketch technically and that's exactly against creativity. This makes me remember when my class mates used to shiver at Engineering Graphics. Because the learning was technical than imagination.

Technical learning has a limitation, you have factors / parameters and you try to put things in place with these. where as when one starts imagining there are no boundaries and sky is the limit. Possibly why companies and organizations today have Creative Directors in hierarchy.

And another great observation, there are no coaching classes for creativity. Because the whole world is trying to confine everything into metrics. something that can be measured easily. or a process laid out to achieve an output. creativity comes absolutely out of imagination and there are no quantifiable parameters to it. So no body can measure it , nor lay a process around it to get a desired output.

And this gives a reason why Marketing , Product Design , Graphics , Animations , Music are the highest paid jobs on Earth, and the good part is you don't have to go to any school and college for this, for there are none. Note Engineers / doctors / MBA's not mentioned. unless you are creative. And the far bigger advantage with creativity is anticipation.

Well my job now is to get my student imagining, and yes its a big challenge.