Introduction
Creativity is a person’s ability to come up with new and inventive ideas and the willingness to transform them into reality. Life presents us with challenges that require us to think and come up with solutions. These solutions always come from an original way that something has been done. Therefore the source of creativity is an original way that everyone is familiar with. Creative thinking is the ability of a person to analyze a state or a habit and design a way to do it better. This involves a change of attitude and continual persistence and willingness to do something better. This paper will analyze people’s responses to creative thinking and the reasons for those responses.
Attitude
The character in the video clip in his attempt to introduce a new perspective in the company on the operations of the business does not succeed. People have attitudes that work at their expense when it comes to creative thinking (Lubart, 1999). Some find the entire new and scintillating ideas tormenting and they develop unfounded fear that prompts them at refusing to accept the change that is brought forth by the changes. It is also common to find people who have the I-can’t-do-it mentality that is not characteristic of creative people. This blocks a certain part of their mind that develops the juice that should be accelerating creativity (O’Hara and Sternberg, 1999).
Fear
People’s reaction to a problem is always quite different because others might react to it with a view to solving it while others just simply view it as an unsolvable mystery. This hinders the importance of finding solutions to a problem. The same is transferred to the fact that someone else has found a solution to a problem. It manifests itself well when the character in the movie tries to sell the idea of stopping the ban on lack of credit offering in the business (O’Hara and Sternberg, 1999).
The fear that the management has towards the new idea results in him being fired and told that on an experimental basis it can work but when in the field it is a huge task to accomplish that. The bosses, it is obvious have a fear in them that hinders the creative mind of the juniors and hence eventual development of the company. It is also the norm for creative people to have instances of a failed attempt at something. But some have the innate or developed fear of failing which effectively curtails their creative minds or acceptance of others’ ideas (Koestler, 1964).
Social Conformity
Creative minds have a tendency to be playful just like children. People have a superiority complex and this ego is protected to a point where they consider the creative genius of others to be childish and just a joke. This might be the problem that befalls the movie character in Maguire. It is evident in the setting of the workplace, especially where the conservative boss does not heed the creative personality of the junior workers (DeGraff and Lawrence, 2002). This is an outside reaction to an inner ego that the boss wants to protect. There is also the question of what will people think? This pops up in the mind of people and restrains their actions and adventures in an unknown field so as not to be viewed as stupid and small-minded when the idea does not work (Vandervert, et al., 2007).
Conclusion
It is hard to sell a new idea to a conservative crowd that has an inborn fear that has evolved over time. Creative thinkers are more often than not shunned due to their playful nature and perspectives that are considered childish (Vandervert, et al., 2007). This however is the origin of creative thinking. Those who do not appreciate the minds of creative’s have a dimension that makes them do that. It can be a social affiliation, an in-depth fear or a negative attitude towards new and innovative ideas.
References
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