most VALUABLE topic....

i feel as though i am going to be taking a lot away from this class in general by the end of the semester, but so far i think the most valuable take away was the topic of "Nobody is born creative, and we all have the same amount of ability to become quote on quote... creative." I have always heard people use the excuse... "Well i cant do that, im just not creative" and it makes me a little crazy. i look at creativity like a muscle. you have to use it, push it, stretch it for it to work... So of course after having that lecture proceeded to return home to one of my roommates who is a nursing student and seriously a pure genius. Her memory is insane. She has basically aced everything since she started kindergarten... but she has also said she is "not creative AT ALL" at numerous points of our friendship and believes there is not one creative bone in her body. So i told her all of us have the same amount of potential to be creative and that her and i were not born with different amounts of creativity, and that maybe she just isn't USING her creative bones in that body of hers. She of course did not believe me and tried to test the theory right then and there, which probably not the best way to conduct research, but she said she would try to draw. because she said she cant even draw a stick figure. so i went along with it and told her she has to put thought and time into it like she does her studies and she promised she would. she grabbed the closest "artistic looking" thing in her apartment, which happened to be a flower pot with a flower design, and she said "i bet i cant even draw one of these flowers....." 15 minutes later this is what came out.....

now its no Picasso piece of art.... but she (and i) were both presently surprised. I explained creative doesn't mean = drawing and painting like some people think, but she is finally warmed up to the perspective that she has been flexing her book smart brain muscles where as i have been flexing my creative brain muscles.