TORRANCE AS FATHER OF MODERN CREATIVE THEORY

An adaptation of the concepts of E.L. Torrance


Fluency

The ability to create diverse categories of ideas and perceive ideas from a variety of points of view. Presenting thoughts in terms that are clear, meaningful, and relevant to the context.

  • Agility in presenting solutions in an ever-changing environment.

  • Fluency allows a certain base to be constituted, which is a trigger for further action.

  • Ability to stimulate creative thinking in others.


Flexibility

Moving freely through the issues.


Originality


  • The ability to create new, different and unique ideas that the others do not have the opportunity to create.

  • Originality is a quality that can also be defined as perspicacity - art of seeing the unseen.

  • Seeing things that are obvious but previously unnoticed.

  •  Increases community-wide functionality.


Elaboration

The ability to expand on an idea by supplementing and surrounding it with details, or by defining in depth a systematic plan for its implementation.


  • The efficient expansion of thought together with the insight of the current situation.

  • Ability to expand concepts with reliable systematization.


Creativity as an idea and process

Creativity as an action: 

Positive tendency towards the achievement, by conscious and spontaneous methods, of a given goal that man pursues through his own inspiration or external suggestions. It is also the effect of this work in the sense of accomplished, for example works of Leonardo da Vinci.


Creativity as an ability: 

or a state which helps in the creative process.


  • These are resources that are often unconscious; activated and revealed suddenly or discovered gradually only after practical and theoretical work has been done.

  • It is not uncommon for creativity to bring satisfaction along with a sense of empowerment and further motivation by pursuing a set path through innovative means.


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Creativity model 4 ps as a system of creative process

Creativity as a system

The 4 P's are elements of a system that provides a base of methods for creativity and problem solving. It gives a glimpse of possibilities during creative processes.


It consists of four components:

  • Person

  • Process

  • Product

  • Press

Creativity in methodology

  • The components described make it possible to track creative processes in a structured way. They act as guiding signposts.

  • They help set goals for the whole team and in learning from mistakes.

  • The system allows for self-learning by developers due to its simplicity, which gains synergies from previous 4 P's activities.

  • As the method continues, participants become more independent and create more efficient products as experience is gained.


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Description of the main components of the creative process

Person: an entrepreneur and initiator who uses creative resources to create a project. The person is initially at the center of implementation, but at a later stage, the roles may change, especially with the nature of social entrepreneurship.

Process: is related to a procedure of action that seeks to generate a product. It is not a method but a transparent description of the functioning of individual thoughts: their sequence, nature and completion.

Product: process outcome where it is analyzed, evaluated and usable. The effectiveness of the previous segments (person and process) is then checked.

Press: the environment in which the product and the creative process were realized. Press talks about the nature of the company's work, its employees and bosses responsible for the atmosphere and general conditions.



Creativity as the way of thinking in everyday life

“To achieve great things, we need to dream as much as we” 

act. Anatole France

Creativity should lift the burden of everyday life off one's shoulders. It has a kind of self-therapeutic function, allowing you to continue working without increasing the risk of burnout. Creativity is a phenomenon that depends on both the act of will and the form of the search for connections

It is therefore important to practice meticulousness in the expression of thoughts in creative processes. Defining a sense of the state of one's own creative power by: defining place, time; naming emotions and thoughts accompanying creative processes.


Creativity training in everyday life with reference to Torrance work

Discourse with the inner creator
(reinforces: Flexibility and Originality)


  • Attempting to remember and gaze into ourselves when and how we were in a state of heightened creative activity

  • Ask yourself what the dominant mood was at the time and what ideas were present at the time

  • A method effective when feeling stagnant in creative processes


Insight into your inner child
(reinforces: Flexibility; Originality; Fluency)


  • A very common reason for blunting creative qualities is throwing oneself into the routine of everyday life, ignoring seemingly trivial thoughts, commonly found in childhood days.

  • Understanding the childlike part in the creative aspects teaches an appreciation of straightforwardness even against an absurd background.

  • Recalling how imagination worked as a child and how it can be used now with the systematics of a mature person.


Active engagement with everyday life
(strengthens Flexibility; strengthens the other three qualities accordingly)


  • Routinization makes people lose their alertness and suffer from dullness in everyday life

  • A worthwhile solution is to see analogies in one's daily activities regarding a particular project one is working on in parallel

  • Morning hygiene, cooking, housekeeping or work-related obligations can be catalysts for creative work


Entertainment as a contribution to creative activities
(Supports all elements)


  • A state of relaxation is an effective catalyst for creative action

  • Entertainment that helps you relax allows the thoughts needed to complete the chain of solutions to emerge spontaneously

  • In the digital age, attention is mostly directed towards films, series and computer games rather than reaching for the reading material

  • There is also space here to implement creativity. It is then worthwhile to use objects of play that are linked indirectly or more closely to problems requiring creative disposal in Social Entrepreneurship

  • Entertainment strengthens the bonds between team members and allows them to comfortably express their thoughts