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Psychologist Vladimir Spiridonov on the psychology of creativity, the search for creative solutions and heuristic strategies
Over the past 200 years in Europe, only the lazy has not been talking about the need to be creative. Since the romantic philosophers gave birth to the idea of creative genius and it became widespread, widespread in the widest circles of society, no one doubts that it is good to be creative. In various countries and social conditions, people are looking for ways, recipes to increase their creative efficiency, not to mention that they are looking for an explanation of the very phenomenon of creativity.
Creativity in the broadest sense is the creation of something new, something that a person has not created before, has not seen, could not think. There are many types of creativity: intellectual, artistic, theatrical, and so on - all this implies that a person creates something that did not exist before, and the scale of this creativity can be completely different. Something can be new for himself, for the group to which he belongs, or even for all of humanity.
When it comes to creative people, everyone understands different things by this phrase. Many people imagine people in creative professions: actors, artists, scientists, and so on. However, everyone in some sense can be creative people, albeit to varying degrees. Everyone can, using their abilities, create something new, at least within the framework of their own lives.
It is often said that in childhood they are more creative, and with age, the ability to be creative goes away. This is not true. Children, to a lesser extent than adults, are bound by all sorts of social norms, attitudes and other restrictions, but in general, the idea that children are more creative does not correspond to reality. Children are as different in their inclinations and abilities as adults. In this sense, there are no particular differences.
The fact that it becomes more difficult for a person to make bold creative decisions with age is just the flip side of the phenomenon of adulthood, which is fundamental to our culture. An adult is a person who takes into account a lot of conventions and restrictions, from which it is more and more difficult to refuse. That is, in this respect, growing into a culture or society, on the one hand, gives a lot of opportunities, on the other hand, makes one live in a world of various restrictions.
In recent decades, in connection with technical progress, there has been some substitution of creative activity by information search. That is, for those cases when people used to understand that there was nowhere to go and would have to make some effort and come up with something, “put your head” - to look for new ideas, try different solutions, and so on, now there is Google, there are social networks. The process of coming up with and coming up with good creative solutions is often replaced by the search for a ready-made answer. In addition to the fact that other people's decisions may not be suitable for a particular case, this robs an incredible source of motivation and simply pleasure from the process of dealing with and defeating uncertainty.
Nevertheless, even in conditions of such social restrictions, there is an opportunity to develop creative abilities, although we have to come up with various tricks that help us at least temporarily drop a set of restrictions, somehow get around them, elude them. Actually, this is the pragmatic highlight of such a science as the psychology of creativity. She not only describes what is, but also tries to find all sorts of recipes that help people use their creative abilities. In this respect, of course, the psychology of creativity tries to be and is really practice-oriented.
The development of creativity is not a quick process, in contrast to the process of solving some local problem, which can be dealt with in a limited time. You can't do that with creativity. There were no age restrictions in terms of the development of creative abilities, but it is more productive to start doing this in early childhood.
Creativity is a collective term for a whole "bouquet" of abilities. You can behave in very different ways in order to develop these creative abilities. Dancing, drawing, performing arts, discussing scientific problems, invention - all these in one form or another positively influence creativity. In this case, of course, there are more special techniques and methods. The most famous of them are tied in our culture to relatively early ages when they try to develop creativity in children and speak of this as the development of general abilities. To do this, they do things that are quite well described in the psychological and pedagogical literature: children are taught to work with different materials and look for some unexpected new turns, some new connections, new associations, unexpected comparisons, and so on in a variety of situations.
For adults, it is much worse spelled out and drawn. The development of creativity in adulthood requires non-trivial actions, non-trivial words, actions. Any classical areas: artistic creativity, theatrical creativity, dance, word games, painting - all this is suitable as a material where you can develop your creative abilities. However, it is very important to do this systematically, the result cannot be achieved in 10 minutes.
There are no clear methods for developing creativity that would work equally well in the heads of all people. You need to try different recipes and some will work and some are guaranteed not. It is almost impossible to determine what will work a priori. You need to try both, and the third - this is on the one hand. On the other hand, all these recipes are based in the broadest sense on the psychophysiological nature of man. There are more successful moments for creativity, and for yourself you need to be able to see them. There are certain actions that help you turn on, "enter" creative work. Actions that help us solve problems, cope with problem situations, are called heuristic strategies. You need to know them and be able to use some of them. In addition, there are situations in which creativity is especially difficult.
The psychology of creativity is a direction in psychology that studies how people, having the psychological apparatus that they have, create new things, objects, ideas, and so on. The psychology of creativity, being an ordinary science, deals not with practical recipes, but with the description of how the surrounding life works. The theory of creativity is looking for mechanisms of creative activity, that is, psychological mechanisms that ensure the creation of new products, the creation of new ideas. Accordingly, this is a somewhat normal psychological field of research in which people seek explanations of how mechanisms operating in different heads work that help or ensure the creation of a new one. Then, when these mechanisms become clear, already starting from this, you can come up with recipes, understand what interferes with creative work, and what will help. But first there must be research, since the first thing to do is to describe the mechanisms themselves.
Over the past 200 years in Europe, only the lazy has not been talking about the need to be creative. Since the romantic philosophers gave birth to the idea of creative genius and it became widespread, widespread in the widest circles of society, no one doubts that it is good to be creative. In various countries and social conditions, people are looking for ways, recipes to increase their creative efficiency, not to mention that they are looking for an explanation of the very phenomenon of creativity.
Creativity in the broadest sense is the creation of something new, something that a person has not created before, has not seen, could not think. There are many types of creativity: intellectual, artistic, theatrical, and so on - all this implies that a person creates something that did not exist before, and the scale of this creativity can be completely different. Something can be new for himself, for the group to which he belongs, or even for all of humanity.
When it comes to creative people, everyone understands different things by this phrase. Many people imagine people in creative professions: actors, artists, scientists, and so on. However, everyone in some sense can be creative people, albeit to varying degrees. Everyone can, using their abilities, create something new, at least within the framework of their own lives.
It is often said that in childhood they are more creative, and with age, the ability to be creative goes away. This is not true. Children, to a lesser extent than adults, are bound by all sorts of social norms, attitudes and other restrictions, but in general, the idea that children are more creative does not correspond to reality. Children are as different in their inclinations and abilities as adults. In this sense, there are no particular differences.
The fact that it becomes more difficult for a person to make bold creative decisions with age is just the flip side of the phenomenon of adulthood, which is fundamental to our culture. An adult is a person who takes into account a lot of conventions and restrictions, from which it is more and more difficult to refuse. That is, in this respect, growing into a culture or society, on the one hand, gives a lot of opportunities, on the other hand, makes one live in a world of various restrictions.
In recent decades, in connection with technical progress, there has been some substitution of creative activity by information search. That is, for those cases when people used to understand that there was nowhere to go and would have to make some effort and come up with something, “put your head” - to look for new ideas, try different solutions, and so on, now there is Google, there are social networks. The process of coming up with and coming up with good creative solutions is often replaced by the search for a ready-made answer. In addition to the fact that other people's decisions may not be suitable for a particular case, this robs an incredible source of motivation and simply pleasure from the process of dealing with and defeating uncertainty.
Nevertheless, even in conditions of such social restrictions, there is an opportunity to develop creative abilities, although we have to come up with various tricks that help us at least temporarily drop a set of restrictions, somehow get around them, elude them. Actually, this is the pragmatic highlight of such a science as the psychology of creativity. She not only describes what is, but also tries to find all sorts of recipes that help people use their creative abilities. In this respect, of course, the psychology of creativity tries to be and is really practice-oriented.
The development of creativity is not a quick process, in contrast to the process of solving some local problem, which can be dealt with in a limited time. You can't do that with creativity. There were no age restrictions in terms of the development of creative abilities, but it is more productive to start doing this in early childhood.
Creativity is a collective term for a whole "bouquet" of abilities. You can behave in very different ways in order to develop these creative abilities. Dancing, drawing, performing arts, discussing scientific problems, invention - all these in one form or another positively influence creativity. In this case, of course, there are more special techniques and methods. The most famous of them are tied in our culture to relatively early ages when they try to develop creativity in children and speak of this as the development of general abilities. To do this, they do things that are quite well described in the psychological and pedagogical literature: children are taught to work with different materials and look for some unexpected new turns, some new connections, new associations, unexpected comparisons, and so on in a variety of situations.
For adults, it is much worse spelled out and drawn. The development of creativity in adulthood requires non-trivial actions, non-trivial words, actions. Any classical areas: artistic creativity, theatrical creativity, dance, word games, painting - all this is suitable as a material where you can develop your creative abilities. However, it is very important to do this systematically, the result cannot be achieved in 10 minutes.
There are no clear methods for developing creativity that would work equally well in the heads of all people. You need to try different recipes and some will work and some are guaranteed not. It is almost impossible to determine what will work a priori. You need to try both, and the third - this is on the one hand. On the other hand, all these recipes are based in the broadest sense on the psychophysiological nature of man. There are more successful moments for creativity, and for yourself you need to be able to see them. There are certain actions that help you turn on, "enter" creative work. Actions that help us solve problems, cope with problem situations, are called heuristic strategies. You need to know them and be able to use some of them. In addition, there are situations in which creativity is especially difficult.
The psychology of creativity is a direction in psychology that studies how people, having the psychological apparatus that they have, create new things, objects, ideas, and so on. The psychology of creativity, being an ordinary science, deals not with practical recipes, but with the description of how the surrounding life works. The theory of creativity is looking for mechanisms of creative activity, that is, psychological mechanisms that ensure the creation of new products, the creation of new ideas. Accordingly, this is a somewhat normal psychological field of research in which people seek explanations of how mechanisms operating in different heads work that help or ensure the creation of a new one. Then, when these mechanisms become clear, already starting from this, you can come up with recipes, understand what interferes with creative work, and what will help. But first there must be research, since the first thing to do is to describe the mechanisms themselves.
