Blog Five

I really liked the quote "Everyone has to be creative to meet the challenges of daily life" I believe this to be true because we are obviously all different from one another. You could give everyone in the class a scenario that deals with solving a problem in life and what not, and tell them to figure out how they would handle it. I bet most of us would have our own different "creative" ways of handling our challenge in life. So that quote is about as true as it gets maybe not from scientific proof, but from our own personal experiences. This reminded me of one of the Marine Corps' motto's "Adapt, Improvise, Overcome" The Marines teach you how to handle situations when things arent always going your way, you dont have a typical way out of the situation, or dont have enough time get the task done. You must be creative in your own way by adapting to the situation, coming up with improvisations and eventually overcoming. Now this has creativity written all over it, and it has to do with meeting a challenge in life. You have to be able to handle the situation when things don't go as planned, and to do that is with CREATIVITY. So that's another way of relating to that quote.

I also think creativity can relate to cultural conciousness and altered states. Creativity is different in all of us, but why? is it the way we were brought up by our cultures that make us think creative in a different way? For example making a joke in your own creative manner. Maybe half the people think its funny because its their sense of creative humour. Maybe the other half thought it wasnt funny because they have a different sense of creativity. Is this because of cultural consciousness? Also creativity could be enhanced or decreased being in an altered state. I remember in my video production class, we talked about a famous production group (cant rememeber the name) who wasn't very creative unless they went to a bar and got drunk. After that they came up with amazing ideas that opened other peoples perspectives.

I kind of liked the whole idea with us being able to see with our hands. People shouldn't take it so literal and believe that our hands actually have eyes, retina's, iris', etc. I guess you can relate it to the saying "seeing the light" Its about opening our mind through our senses and reasoning to "see" something, not neccesarily with just the eyes. Just take blind people for example. They "see" through their hands. I'm sure since they dont have the optical illusions that we do, they have to form some kind of image in their head of what they are feeling with their hands. It's hard for us to believe because we can see. I think when you are deprived of a sense, your other ones start to trigger in ways you never thought they would, just like Professor Kearney's experience.