Creativity has many meaning. Creativity is often defined as the ability to produce novel responses or works. Moreover it is enough for these products to be outlandish: they must in some way appropriate in context or valued by other.
Howard Gardner in 1997 has described creativity as ‘the ability to solve problems and fashion products and to raise new questions’, while Bill Lucas in 2001 says that it is ‘a state of mind in which all out intelligences are working together’.
Rollo May’s in 1975 definition that creativity is ‘the process of bringing something new into being’ is both simple and encomspssing.
In structured-of-intellect model J.P. Guilford in 1967, captured the idea of creativity by proposing that it involves divergent thinking rather than convergent thinking.
What is creativity?
