Creativity - the motor of human life

Da Vinci‘s Mona Lisa, Michelangelo‘s David, Rubens‘ voluptuous nudes, but also Beethoven’s Ninth and Robbie Williams’ “Misunderstood”.... they all owe their existence to human creativity. If these and all the other works of art didn’t exist, human life would be dull, dreary and boring.  Yet without creativity not only would our lives drag along in grey gloominess, we would also be standing around naked and freezing somewhere in the rain under a tree in the savannah: you see, the gift of making and controlling fire, as well as sewing trousers and shoes, building houses, planting food crops and rolling through our lives on wheels, all this and much more wouldn’t exist without human creativity.  The thing is, creativity means establishing something new, being active in an imaginative way, in other words it refers to the capacity of a person to find unusual and innovative solutions to a problem in diverse life situations. However creativity is not just needed for producing great works of art or inventing the typewriter, engine and ship’s propeller. It wouldn’t be possible to cope with day-to-day insanity without creativity either: scheduling the next day and then rearranging it in the morning after all because something urgent throws the plans, that’s creativity as well. Even working out an alternative route to take when you’re stuck in traffic requires a creative process. In short: creativity is an essential component of human life, it is just as meaningful and important as walking upright.