At first I thought I would need to use the creative experience of
someone else because I don’t consider myself creative. However, I guess I am
when I have to be. The old expression is “Necessity is the mother of invention”
is true in one instance I know. My husband has been laid off for over five
years, so we’ve had to watch every penny we spend. Often when it’s near another
once-a-month payday, I can’t just go out and buy ingredients for dinner so I
have to go to the freezer and cupboard to find something to cook. I’ve turned
into a very good cook, according to my family. They love whatever I throw
together even when it involves ingredients that normally don’t go together.
This definitely fits in with the chapter’s discussion of creativity.
The authors of our book quoted other authors when they wrote, “In summary,
creativity is ‘any form of action that leads to results that are novel, useful,
and predictable’ (Denhardt, Denhardt, & Aristigueta, 2009).The meals I
create are novel, useful, and predictable in that, luckily for me, my family
always likes what I throw together. I use imagination in mixing ingredients,
insightful understanding in knowing what will work together, and creativity in
coming up with new food dishes that taste good. I use equifinality in that I
find countless ways to create food. I definitely have an open mind when I go to
look what is in my cupboard and freezer. I don’t always rely on logic and I’m
willing to break the rules because most often I’ve never seen the meals I mix
together mixed anywhere else.
The only problem is that my family would like to have the same thing
again, but because I’ve thrown it together off the cuff and add various spices,
I can never make the same thing twice!
Hello Lee,
ReplyDeleteI wanted to respond to your post because you said something I could really relate to. You said that you had originally wanted to use an example of creativity from someone else’s experience because you didn’t consider yourself a creative person. I can relate to this because I felt the same way. I feel that I am a more traditional, logical, type of person. Attempting to come up with a creative idea that involves thinking out of the box is difficult for me. I liked your example of creativity and I thought you did a great job even though you feel that you aren’t as creative as others.