Rose Rising

     This week's class was about our creative personality, and how complex that personality is, how someone can hold two traits that are seemingly opposite. Csikszentmihalyi discusses the idea that what makes someone creative is embracing all parts of ourselves, even if society would say that it is not possible to have two polar traits, Csikszentmihalyi says otherwise, "If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it would be complexity. By this, I mean that they show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes- instead of being an "individual," each of them is a "multitude." Like the color white that includes all the hues in the spectrum, they tend to bring together the entire range of human possibilities within themselves." (Csikszentmihalyi, The Creative Personality.)      I adored the activity for this class, we were to pick four traits and the pol...

     In class we did multiple activities, in small groups we were to find as many uses as possible for the chosen everyday object. As we continued doing different objects or even scenarios, each of us got more and more creative. It was really fun to turn something so small and mundane into something crazy or even a plot of a new movie. It was so much fun, I didn't feel like I was doing classwork, I was just enjoying coming up with the most outrageous things we could think of, and seeing how creative each of us could be in our story-telling.       This assignment let me consider how I use creativity every day, when I feel like I have too much on my plate (like now for example) I put into steps what I need to do, down to something small like getting out of bed. This is creative as it is finding ways to be able to do the things I need to do to survive even if I feel like I cannot.  I also notice it in how my friend thinks of creative ways to entertai...