In the article The Importance of Creativity on Our Global Society and in Today’s Educational System , Mary Simpson takes a look at creativity, not only as how it is seen today, but as it was seen in the late 18th and early 19th century when the renaissance was producing poets, and artists. This time in history is when “creativity” was born. Creative people were able to think differently than others and express their thoughts in new ways. Simpson also takes a look at the psychological history of creativity, referencing research of great thinkers of the past such as Freud, and tests that would identify personalities that have enhanced creativity, bringing up the arguments that creativity is a metal process, or that it is an experiential process.
Simpson also discusses the different phases of creativity as described by Csikszentmihalyi:
- The preparation phase
- Process of incubation
- Eureka moment or insight phase
- Elaboration phase
Simpson argues that the we have moved beyond the need to only have analytical thinkers, but it is creative thinkers we will be needing for the future.