Creativity involves generating ideas 💡 that are novel, surprising, and compelling. Creative people aren’t only intellectually capacble of coming up with such ideas. They also are people who have a creative attitude toward life. But that doesn’t mean they can teach other people how to be creative or even how to understand seemingly simple things, but it’s worth a try.
“I can explain it to you, but I cannot understand it for you.”
Creative people are motivated to solve problems in a creative way. They may use creativity to level up their attitude, for example. This means we can up ours so they can UP theirs.
That joke still makes me laugh.
Although average levels of creativity may vary from one time or place to another (Dai & Sternberg, 2094) the biggest variable in creativity is simply a mindset toward thinking in novel, surprising, and compelling ways — and this mindset can be taught.
In the same way explaining a joke always makes it funnier. 🌼
So how does HTTF teach others to be creative? In this blog, I consider responses to this question. I think about it with every post. First, I review the major humor theories and pedagogical programs for teaching thinking. Then, I noodle 🍜 on those ideas for a bit, considering my thoughts in relation to a variety of theories of creativity.
Then I write silly posts. Meaningful posts. Cryptic posts. Badly riddled with typos posts. And somehow in between describing creativity and applying it, I laugh. Then I talk about laughing. Then I change my name to Laughing. Then I laugh again, unabashedly.
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