Creativity and Coolness

ONE:
What is your definition of creativity?
Creativity, to me, is the ability to create something, whether it’s original or not.
True creativity is creating something that’s original, but takes minor elements from different things as to develop an idea to its utter fullness.
Like Star Wars for example; it took elements from things like World War II, Nazi Germany, modern military, and Planet of the Apes.

How important is creativity?
Creativity is incredibly important. Without it, we’d have none of our modern technology, no art, no music, and no simpler ways to do things, no cool looking clothes, and no interesting conversations. We’d be quite a bland species, and would probably often be depressed and incredibly monotone.
Thankfully, we’re quite the opposite.

How do you develop creativity in your life?
To develop creativity, you need to take in everything with an open mind.
You need to discover and retain knowledge, but perceive it and use it as you like.
You need to think outside of the box in terms of everything you do, see, hear, and feel.
You need to realize that not everything you do or think is going to please everyone, and that’s ok. Life would be quite boring without disagreements and compromises. It adds diversity to life.

Can your creative approach transfer over to different areas of your life?
Of course it can; for example: say you work in some sort of office. You wouldn’t expect to be using much creativity there, but you could indeed incorporate creativity in the way you approach things at the work place such as how you’re going to do something within the given time frame and deadline. You forgot you had to organize a cabinet for your boss: creatively organize your thoughts and your time as so it all works out to everyone’s benefit. Also, set up your workplace to your liking, but in a way as so you don’t lose your job.

TWO:
What is your definition of coolness?
My definition of coolness? I guess it would be anything that appeals to me like certain music, certain art, life in general, traveling, certain people, and certain places.
I don’t like screamo music, so I don’t think it’s cool. But I like rock, so I think it’s cool.
It’s quite an easy concept to grasp.

What are some of the elements which make something cool?
Hmm… long term interest in whatever it is, the overall appeal I feel towards it, what it may relate to, what references it uses, what it may symbolize, etc.
I really don’t know how to expand on that very much. It’s a hard question to ask due to its heavy orientation with opinion.

What is the media’s definition of coolness?
The media’s definition? It would have to depend on the media outlet you may be referring to. CNN sees coolness as wearing a suit and tie and showing up to report on the news every day. Ultimately, they think anyone that works hard to make money is ‘cool.’
Teen pop celebrity magazines see coolness as anyone who looks attractive, talks using long-overused slang and abbreviations (ex: that’s bunk! Yo, wazzup?). Those artistic magazines see coolness as anything that expresses an opinion and a perspective, but also includes anyone that wears slightly tinted glasses and walks around talking like they’re slightly stoned all the time.

What are some of society’s concepts of coolness?
Again, it heavily depends on opinion, outlet, area, group, and culture. There’s no such thing as one ‘society,’ only an interconnection between them all.
I guess the ultimate outlook on coolness would be attractiveness, kindness, understandability, sympathy, and empathy. Again, it differs, but as I see it that’s ultimately the overall outlook if you actually take the time to study peoples habits.

Review what you wrote, does question 1 and 2 relate to one another? Explain.
Yes, questions 1 and 2 do relate to each other quite strongly; you have to be creative, take initiative, and see things differently to be seen as cool and noticed by the rest of the world.
A lot of people go through there entire lives saying they’re going to take initiative, but as they see it, never actually ‘get around to it.’ They let things get in the way of what they want, and how they wish to be seen. People have got to stop doing that, and realize anything can be pulled off in any way at any time if you have the right initiative and belief that you can do it.
Being creative causes you to stand out of the crowd, making you easily distinguishable; that can lead to two different things though: people can see you as a weird, annoying sort of distinguishable, while others can see you as original, fun, and a bit enigmatic.
Also take into account that people may become jealous of what you’ve become, so chances are not everyone will actually like you. Just a heads up.

Well, that’s my views on the entire subject. Hopefully it was informative.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WAS ORIGINALLY CREATED AS AN IN-SCHOOL ESSAY FOR MY DIGITAL MEDIA CLASS. IT WAS NOT ORIGINAL FOR THIS BLOG, FOR ANYONE WHO MAY NOTICE ANY UNDERLYING INCONSISTENCIES.