Reflection Blog #3- The Creative State of Mind

After the never ceasing monsoon wind that made suspension of classes plus some events in school, finally we finally got to continue our lecture about creativity.

Of course after the discussion ideas flew all over my head and thought of doing something creative. Many of us Filipinos consider a work creative through various considerations: first if you’re too young and you made an unexceptional work like drawing stupid lines of course your parents would be proud and will say like “Aww.. My child’s such a genius, maybe one day he’ll be an artist” and I’m “okay?? Second if you’re fond of painting abstract that only you could understand and pretenders would say “You’re so creative, I’d never thought of such beautiful painting as you do, blah blah I felt your emotion” and I’m like “seriously?”, the third is when some intelligent Filipinos see the real creativity and it matched the things discussed in class. There are three elements of creativity according to Robinson; first imaginativeness, originality, and making something relevant. And this is really the qualifications of creativity, not some kind of plastic expression to certain made things.

It’s just for me though, through the years coming from the college of liberal arts I’ve seen a lot of undoubtedly creative stuffs, and coming back to the elements of creative things should possess, things I’ve seen matches to what Robinson enumerated.

We also tackled certain disciplines tackling psychology; these are things that enable a person’s creativity or to where he or she gets maybe inherit his or her creativity. Like the Japanese their state of mind is absolutely unbelievable, but then there are certain extremes showed in class that makes them somewhat stupid alsoJ.  Our prof also made a comparison, while the Westerners conjoining the Americans and the Europeans with their fission system, the Japanese alone had their fusion. That’s why I’m wondering after class, how brilliant Japanese are. They didn’t invent a lot of things but then when it comes to market and sales they’re unbelievable. Japanese make things more useful than ever. Also having their hybrid technological idea makes their minds the empire state.

How come Filipinos don’t have this? Of course we do. Having such examples of the fluorescent lamps which the government did not support, LPG gas, water diesel, and a lot more. Maybe we are inventive but ain’t creative. We don’t know how to manage things that’s why our ideas are being stolen from us. Only scientists maybe are creative, but hands down to the Japanese in all aspects, yes they are the henyos, because of their Mandala, which is their process of gaining ideas.