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When I was thirteen, a dream died. My hopes and ambitions to be a creative spirit were shot to hell after I had finished what seemed like my 100th attempt to create just one aesthetically attractive clay vase in my school pottery class. As I looked around at the other students perfectly round, beautifully painted sculptures, the realisation that I sucked at art was confirmed beyond doubt. So what option did I have but to accept my fate? I was simply not a "creative" type. Never was, never would be. After all, some people are just creative and some aren't, right? And besides, who needs to be able to draw when you are working in an office for a 9-to-5 job.
Such was the view I had towards creativity until recently, where a new preoccupation with how to apply creativity in everyday life has been appearing in some of my previous blog posts. No longer just the domain of black-clothing clad (and often eccentric) individuals like writers, musicians, artists, actors, or inventors, perhaps even I had some creative tendencies brewing underneath my practical, health care marketing consultant persona.
And this got me thinking. With the help of technology, Gen Y has more platforms, opportunities, and technical savvy to create everything. Think about it. We log onto our computer and create a play list that combines the music that we like, no radio station necessary. We sign-on to a Website and design our own t-shirt, complete with our selected picture or phrase. We can create our own gluten-free, soy-free, dairy-free muffins , after doing an online search to find a recipe that suits our unique needs. We create our own narratives of life with blogging, twitter, facebook messages that tell us and the world how we think and feel about pretty much anything. And we create careers, like blogging, that are way off the beaten career path.
We are constantly creating, building and strengthening our creative capacities. Maybe it is this drive to create and explore that other generations mistake for impatience. Perhaps the old definitions and understanding of creativity are being redefined with all the new options made available through technology. If so, what does this mean for how Gen Y defines creativity? And just how important is being creative in our everyday life?
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