Course Excerpt: Unlocking Creativity Unlocking your creativity can be both magically transforming, and yet supremely practical. How much better off would we be if government were more creative in dealing with the issues it faces? The benefit of creativity for religious institutions might result in a more personal connection with God for their congregations. In terms of health care and public education, there would be more of an opportunity for an opening in creative collaboration with those whom they serve.
Creativity, if given the high social value that it deserves, could provide the following: The individual, who is the catalyst for and the force of all change and creativity, would benefit immensely because he or she would be both the active protagonist and the active beneficiary of such creative change. Personal happiness would increase because individuals would find value and importance in creating solutions that would benefit themselves and others. Society would improve because of the active interest and stake in making these solutions work practically. Society would improve because its service would now be [once again] directly linked to preserving the individual. The individual would improve because he/she was now the benefit of society. But what is creativity? Though it has been studied, analyzed, dissected, discussed and documented as if it were a tangible thing, we have no generally accepted definition of creativity—no agreement on precisely