Music and Creativity

By Miles Dailey

Creativity is a special aspect that has always been a part of my life. As
you probably know by now I love to make music and that has boosted my
creativeness over the years. Along with school projects and paper that I have
written over the past 8 years of school. In didn’t know what to expect from
this class but I am beyond happy that I decided to take it. This class has
opened a whole new side of me. It has made me think outside of the box
more times than often, and it has really pushed me to become my most
creative self. The reflection really help a lot. They help me get stuff off of my
chest at times and allow me to say how I feel about certain things involving
being creative, working with other people, and talking about my life in
general and explaining where my creative ability sprouted from. We have
had three reflections so far. As I said before I loved completing both of them
because they helped me express myself a little more. But what I took away
from the first reflection are couple of things. These include Sternberg’s
intellectual abilities of a creative. I really feel like I can relate to the synthetic
ability because I find myself thinking of problems differently than other. I
don’t see a problem as straight forward as others may, I see problems as
something I can improve on and help better myself. I also really enjoyed
talking about the different levels of creativity.

I want to really consider myself a High C creator due to the mere fact that I make music and have sold my music for a good amount of money over the past two years. I don’t
do music just for the money, I do it because I love it and it makes me feel a
certain type of way when I’m doing it. But I want to be able to change
people’s lives with my music and not just my own. The last thing I took away
from the first weeks of class were the characteristics of creativity. I like the
idea of all of them but there were only three characteristics that I took away
from the list. These really stood out to me because they all relate to an
aspect to my life in one way or another. The three characteristics include
taking risks, staying focused, and being independent. It doesn’t matter what
I do or when I do it. Taking risks should be a big part of anyone’s life because
that is what helps someone move forward, step out of their comfort zone,
and gain an edge on other people who are competing against you. Staying
focused Is very self-explanatory. This will help anyone succeed in whatever
they put their mind to. Being independent is also very important. If you are
independent you don’t have to rely on anyone and you just don’t care what
people think of you which is key to being successful. Lastly the one
intellectual ability that I took away from the first weeks of class was
analytical thinking. Analytical thinking is important due to the fact that it
helps you explore all ideas that you may come up with. You can’t be
complacent when you are trying to create something. It limits your ability to
be creative and you will never be able to unlock your true potential. The first
two power points gave me the most insight on being creative and I took lots
a way form that, but these were a couple more ideas in the later power
points that really stuck with me.

One topic being, idea generation. Idea generation is so important to me not only because it gets all of the ideas out, but it is important to me because it helps me identify the best idea possible and that is the one that I will stick with. With Idea generation comes
brainstorming. I like brain storming in different groups because everyone has
a different mindset and when you put our minds together the ideas are
endless. I have done this many times throughout school and I must say that
this makes it easier to narrow down the list of ideas and pointing out the best
one of them all. The last thing that I want to discuss is creative problem
solving. This probably the biggest one of them that stuck with me the most
in in my opinion. This skill can be put towards many aspects of life no matter
the severity of it. One prime example that I can identify where the whole
class and I had to use creative problem solving recently was the chair
project. This was probably one of the most challenging but fun projects I
have ever dine in my life and it made me think outside the box and step out
of my comfort zone for a decent period of time. The best part about this
project was that I got to see everyone else’s ideas and see how they
compared to mine. I really enjoy watching and listening to other people’s
creative process because it opens up ideas that I would’ve never thought
about and it honestly inspires me. All in all this class is amazing and I can’t
wait to see what is in-store for us in the near future.