Intro: Fostering Creativity
In our class this week, we were asked how we felt when we told ourselves "I am not creative." To be honest, I have to admit that I have never really thought that about myself. I suppose my whole childhood and upbringing, I've always been told I was creative, so it is the one thing I've grasped onto in order to give myself more confidence. I consider it one of the more positive things when it comes to my personality traits. The only thing I occasionally struggle with is reaching a creative block. Sometimes, I run into the issue of not being able to find inspiration for things. I've found that I need to be given a specific topic or subject matter in order to narrow down my path of where my brainstorming should go. When I am given too broad of a subject, I have a tendency to overthink and overwhelm myself with too many ideas and it's hard to find something concrete. I've even thought about using some sort of word scrambler to give me a topic so I can run wit