Everyone is born creative - Unlock those skills with iGen

We have creative abilities that often show up very early in life. We are all born highly creative, school, society, and the expectations to conform and follow the rules numbs us our off natural innate curious and inquisitive state. Studies have shown that between the ages of three and five 98% of children register as highly creative, and this diminishes all the way through our childhood to the extent that by the time we are in our mid twenties only 2% of us register as highly creative. Cognitive research has shown that we have 50,000 thoughts per day and 49,000 of them are the same as the day before. We tend to think in repeated patterns much like a CD playing over and over in our heads. Hence there are few novel thoughts and insights entering our minds on a daily basis.  The good news however is that with awareness and practice of creativity tools we can rebuild those creative muscles and return to our inquisitive childish days, as creativity is very much a skill we can relearn.

“Everyone is born a genius. Society and our educational system ‘degeniuses’ them.” Buckminster Fuller

The ways in which you repeatedly think becomes a habit. If you learn the techniques of creative thinking, and use them until they are a habit, then creative thinking will become a natural thing for you. In essence they enable us to mentally escape from our conditioned thinking patterns. Combining two dissimilar subjects creates a cognitive fusion that oftentimes leads to a novel insight or idea.