Need some subjects for a school paper

Howdy. I have a paper I need to do for an intergration of knowledge course on Creativity. I have to interview five people and ask them several questions for the paper. I thought the fast variety of people on the site would lend itself well to the project to see the similarities to your thoughts on what creativity is.

If you could, I have a pretty easy questionare for you to respond to. If you could just copy it from below, and respond on the post, it would be appreciated.

I only need five, but anybody who wants to answer, feel free, and also feel free to dicuss the subject.

Questionare:

First Name:
Occupation:
Age:
Location(where do you live? what state and/or country?):

What is your definition of Creativity? What is Creativity?:

List Five behaviors you feel creative people exhibit:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)


DON'T READ PAST THIS FIRST POST UNTILL YOU FINISHED THE QUESTIONARE AND POSTED IT. IF YOU SEE SOMEONE ELSES ANSWERS THEY MAY TAMPER YOUR OWN THOUGHTS AND TAINT THE EXPERIMENT.

Now that you posted, feel free to dicuss the subject amongst yourselves if you wish. What do you guys think of the object of creativity? Do other animals express creative thought other then humans?

First Name: Marc
Occupation: Student
Age: 16
Location(where do you live? what state and/or country?):
Indiana.

What is your definition of Creativity? What is Creativity?:
Creativity is figuring out what hasn't been done and then doing it in a clever way.

List Five behaviors you feel creative people exhibit:
1)Art in some form or another.

2)A lack of discipline.

3)Intuitiveness.

4)Desire to create.

5)A certain dislike for academia.

Questionare:

First Name: Neil
Occupation: Musician
Age: 35
Location: England

What is your definition of Creativity? What is Creativity?:

The ability to construct something original or new from your imagination. It is 'new' to the person doing the creating, but not necessarily to others.

List Five behaviors you feel creative people exhibit:
1) Disorganization.
2) Spontaneousnous (I think thats how you spell it!)
3) The ability to think 'outside the box'.
4) Self belief and or confidence in what they are doing.
5) Open minded, always willing to try something new.

Originally posted by WolfofWar

Questionare:

First Name: anxiety, but you can call me anx.....

Age: 44

Location: Canada


What is your definition of Creativity? What is Creativity?:

Expressing concepts you have in your mind in a way that you hope other people understand.

Being able to take ideas from other sources and develop unique ways to use that information, or to create new or advanced products.

I think any physical expression of human thought is a form of being creative.
At the same time, you're being creative inside your mind while you develop the concepts that you want to express.

Hell, I'm being creative just in the action of composing a reply to your thread.

List Five behaviors you feel creative people exhibit:

1)introverted but seeking approval.

2)feelings of being misunderstood.

3)eccentricities that make them stand out.

4)able to draw conclusions based on multiple sources of information.

5)the ability to be very social, but really wanting to be left alone with their thoughts.

6.(I had to add one more.)
Creative people tend to either be totally absorbed within themselves, or the extreme opposite, where they seek out the limelight at any cost.


And some of the most creative people in the world are completely insane.





EDIT: for the sake of editing....

[edit on 13/3/2007 by anxietydisorder]

First Name: Samuel
Occupation: DJ
Age: 16
Location(where do you live? what state and/or country?): Alberta Canada

What is your definition of Creativity? What is Creativity?: The ability to create anything (music, art, a lamp, ect) without influence, now that doesnt mean that influenced work isnt creative, influenced work can be VERY creative, but if you cant be creative without being influenced then I dont believe you are creative. But of course, what do I mean by influenced, I dont mean inspired, I believe you have to be inspired to be creative, but if you are influenced, that I dont believe it is your most creative work, it was influenced work. If this needs clearing up just ask me, if I keep writting it will just get very confusing.

List Five behaviors you feel creative people exhibit:
(I go to an arts school, so this is just what I have seen)
1) Not realizing how creative you are, and not being able to tell if anything is good or bad.
2) Very observant.
3) Disregard for rules or formulas.
4) Trouble working in groups, but can do very good alone.
5) obsesed with whatever they are very creative with.
I could give examples if you need any.

Cool stuff, just need one more.

First Name: Kia
Occupation: Homemaker, Freelance artist/musician
Age: 32
Location(where do you live? what state and/or country?): Arkansas, USA

What is your definition of Creativity? What is Creativity?:

Creativity, for me - is the embodiment of individual expression where words fail. Symbols and music reach people in a place where words cannot always go, and open up multiple interpretations where normal verbal communication may fail.

List Five behaviors you feel creative people exhibit:
1) Individuality.
2) Introversion.
3) Independance.
4) Imagination.
5) Perception.

Questionare:

First Name: Roy
Occupation: Vendor/ Designer
Age: 28
Location(where do you live? what state and/or country?): SA, Texas

What is your definition of Creativity? What is Creativity?:

The ability to make something new out of anything.

List Five behaviors you feel creative people exhibit:
1) Have a gift in one of the arts (Painting,sculpting,writing,etc)
2) Usually not very good with people (Not rude, just introverted)
3) They seem odd, or strange to normal people. They just look at the world in a different way.
4) Are compulsive. Will get onto something that excites them and work on it to a near exhaustion.
5) They can see beauty in something ordinary, or different that a regular person would just ignore.

Hey WolfofWar,

Will we get to read your paper ?
I hope you post it in this thread so we can see the result.