Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new (a product, solution, artwork, literary work, joke, etc.) that has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs. What counts as "valuable" is similarly defined in a variety of ways.
Scholarly interest in creativity ranges widely: Topics to which it is relevant include the relationship between creativity and general intelligence; the mental and neurological processes associated with creative activity; the relationship between personality type and creative ability; the relationship between creativity and mental health; the potential for fostering creativity through education and training, especially as augmented by technology; and the application of an individual's existing creative resources to improve the effectiveness of learning processes and of the teaching processes tailored to them.
Creativity and creative acts are therefore studied across several disciplines - psychology, cognitive science, education, philosophy (particularly philosophy of science), technology, theology, sociology, linguistics, business studies, and economics. As a result, there are a multitude of definitions and approaches.
David Kelley (born June 23, 1949 in Shaker Heights, Ohio) is an American philosopher, author, and advocate of Objectivism. He is founder and senior fellow of The Atlas Society. He lives in Washington, D.C..
Kelley is trained as a philosopher. He received his BA and MA in philosophy from Brown University, where he studied with the American rationalist, Roderick Chisholm. He received his Ph.D. in 1975 from Princeton University, where his advisor was the American postmodernist Richard Rorty. He was an assistant professor of philosophy and cognitive science for 7 years at Vassar College. He then taught logic for a brief time at Brandeis University, while working as a freelance writer for Barron's Magazine and other publications.
A member of her circle, David Kelley read Ayn Rand's favorite poem, "If—", by Rudyard Kipling, at her funeral in 1982.
Leonard Peikoff's Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) declared Objectivism to be a "closed system" containing only the philosophic principles advocated by Rand herself.
Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. Her topics of study include vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. Her work has been featured on PBS, NPR, TED and CNN.
Brown’s current research focuses on authentic leadership and wholeheartedness in families, schools, and organizations and has been the and the subject of a TED talk (2012) and two 2010 TEDx talks (2010)
Brown is the author of I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Telling the Truth About Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power (Penguin/Gotham, 2007), The Gifts of Imperfection: Letting Go of Who We Think We Should Be and Embracing Who We Are (Hazelden, 2010) and Wholehearted: Spiritual Adventures in Falling Apart, Growing Up, and Finding Joy (Hazelden, 2011). She is also the author of Connections, a psychoeducational shame resilience curriculum. Her articles have appeared in many national newspapers.
Houston Women's Magazine voted her one of the most influential women of 2009.
Chase Jarvis is an American professional photographer, director, artist, and entrepreneur.
Jarvis was born in Seattle, Washington. His father was a Seattle Police Department officer, and his mother was an administrator at a biotech company. He attended San Diego State University on a soccer scholarship, receiving a B.A. in Philosophy.
Initially, Jarvis planned to attend medical school after university. A few weeks before graduating, Jarvis’s grandfather died and left all his photography equipment to his grandson. Jarvis subsequently went on a post-college trip through Europe and discovered his passion for photography. He is self-taught, and has learned photography through experimenting and independent study.
In 1994, Jarvis moved to Steamboat Springs, Colorado with his girlfriend, where he began shooting photos of pro snowboarders and skiers. Jarvis licensed his first image for $500 and a pair of skis. Realizing that photography was more lucrative and fulfilling than waiting tables, Jarvis continued to pursue photography while studying Philosophy and Art at the University of Washington’s MA/PhD program. One quarter before completing his Master’s degree, Jarvis licensed a batch of his photos to REI that allowed him to leave academia and open his own studio, Chase Jarvis Photography.
Elizabeth M. Gilbert (born July 18, 1969) is an American author, essayist, short story writer, biographer, novelist and memoirist. She is best known for her 2006 memoirs, Eat, Pray, Love, which as of December 2010, has spent 199 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and was also made into a film by the same name in 2010.
Gilbert was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. Her father was a chemical engineer, her mother a nurse. Along with her only sister, novelist and historian Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Gilbert grew up on a small family Christmas tree farm in Litchfield, Connecticut. The family lived in the country with no neighbors, and they didn’t own a TV or even a record player. Consequently, they all read a great deal, and Gilbert and her sister entertained themselves by writing little books and plays.
Gilbert earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from New York University in 1991, after which she worked as cook, a waitress, and a magazine employee. She wrote of her experience as a cook on a dude ranch in short stories, and also briefly in her book The Last American Man (Viking 2002).
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Don't make it look so easy
Faking a smile as you walk away
From everything that you once loved
And everything you've ever dreamed
Don't let them choose your path
Stand up stay strong
This is a fight you cannot lose
Don't back down now
This is who you are
[Chorus:]
Staring in the mirror
What is it you see?
An unfamiliar face
Full of insecurities
It's time to find yourself
It's time to find your way
Stand up stay strong
You're on your own two feet
Don't back down now
You've already come this far
Don't ever back down
They took advantage for so long
This is where it ends
You're in control of your own fate
Your destiny is in your hands
You were never as weak as they thought
You will always be stronger than them
[Chorus]
Stand up stay strong
Stand up stay strong
Take this chance to live your life
Take this chance to finally be free
[Chorus]
Take this chance to live your life
I've watched my city fall engulfed in flames
I've watched everything I once made slowly fade away
This world that I fought so hard for has come to an end
Theres no one left to fight this corruption no one to end the pain
[Chorus:]
But here I stand no longer alone
Will you rise, will you fight, will you stand by my side
The light that breaks through and shines bright in the night
Will strike a fear in the hearts of those who do wrong
This is my city
This is my home
I won't stand by
And watch everything I love get torn apart
[Chorus]
Rub my eyes
I'm still here
It's been so long
It's so clear
We're not changing
We've been here for so long
We'll break before we stop to catch our breath.
This is all
I can be
Nothing more
This is me
Should have known
Not to become a part of something that I could never love
[Chorus:]
Wake, don't sleep
Rest, resist the change
Hearts are being broken by the choices that they make
Wake don't sleep
Rest will miss the change
Broken hearts are mended by the chances that they take
Get Up Get Up
Wake up wake up wake up
Rest is for the fucking weak go
Get up get up get up
No one needs to sleep
[Chorus]
Our time is now
Time for a change
Our time is now
You've got yourself to blame