Tharp comes to an end

Tharp has many different perspectives on what it means to be creative and how one can obtain that.  Personally, I think that creativity is not something you can obtain but something you create (no pun intended).  But seriously, you cannot simply teach someone to be creative, because technically, you’d be teaching everyone the same thing, which is the opposite of being creative.  To be creative you have to let someone discover things and just analyze things in their own way.  They themselves have to come up with ideas, you can’t persuade them to think one way or another because that’s taking all of the fun out of them becoming an individual. 

         I do think that creativity and individualism is key to a successful and rewarding life but I also know that these two things are extremely hard to accomplish and it takes a lot of work to be different.  Sometimes you have to step back and realize that you can’t be completely different but you can try your best and have to accept that.  Once you become happy with whom you are and accept yourself as a person, the creativity can start flowing and you can try to change for the better.

         I think that creativity cannot be taught but there are many ways to make people become creative in our everyday lives.  If you give someone a topic and just have them write down every word that they associate with it, that is a creative exercise and can result in amazing things.  Simple, yet effective.