Creativity

Ever since I‘ve been asked in my application for the Service Design Thinking Program at KIT, I‘ve been wondering about how creative I actually am. During the application I was asked, if I had done any creative work in the past. While this might be a topic of thought for many people out there, I‘ve never really thought about my relationship with creativity. The Design Thinking Program has been challenging this creative side of me for the past few months. While I‘m not yet certain if I can consider myself a creative person, I sure do work a lot of creative work. And yet it is hard to grasp for me, what being creative actually means. Our instructor in the program recommended us to watch this video by John Cleese on creativity (Transcript). Not only does he state that creativity can‘t be explained (which really eased my mind), it really helped my understanding of the topic and how to get yourself in a creative state. ...