Question #2

My girlfriend and I are always having these mixed conflicts where one of us will have to give up their time to spend with the other. For example, I had just come back from a long day of class and the first thing is that I get greeted by my husky. Being gone for so long, I decided he needed to get some much needed exercise, so I tell her that I’m bringing him to the dog park. She argues that she hasn’t seen me all day and she wants to spend time also. We came to a decision that she would come walk my husky with me so he could get some exercise and we would be spending time with each other as well. There’s not always going to be a time where we make compromises for a win-win situation. That is where things start getting complicated and only one person will get what they want and one with not (win-lose). When you’re not the victorious one on competitive conflict, its pretty degrading giving up what you want, but you keep in mind for the next time that it won’t be the same case.

Question #2

The five cultural barriers to creativity are a requirement for conformity, an expectation of practicality and efficiency, particular arenas for competition or cooperation, an expectation of politeness and following rules for social order, and a trust in the power of reason and logic (Harris & Sherblom, 2008). I believe that these barriers would restrict a small group from being creative in many different ways. It would allow them to only confine to the “norm” and not the uniqueness of their group. As the saying goes, “hopping into the wagon” means that a certain group or person is following the crowd and not being creative in their perspective. For example, the fraternity I’m in currently, started off as a normal fraternity. All we did was party and go out every night. But we wanted to create a different kind of organization that didn’t follow the stereotype, so we created a fraternity towards community service. We are proud to say that this new change has helped our moral because there are few fraternities that dedicate themselves to helping the community.

question #3

The concept that I would like to discuss is maintaining openness with others. The books definition of maintaining openness is “maintaining openness-a supportive communication climate-during the problem solving process is vital for creativity” (p.194). I believe that being able to be open to other’s but also expressing it in creativity is an important role in communicating. Being able to open your mind and express your creative ideas is, in my opinion, a great way to show your openness. The way I show my openness is by taking pictures. I’ve been actively taking pictures for quite a long time. I express my creativity by being able to open myself by showing others how I view the world. I’m a terrible drawer, I cannot paint, so I’m able to only express my openness by doing photography. When I started with my first camera, it was just like a normal hobby. But I began to notice that I was expressing myself through my photography and I enjoyed it that much more.

Question #1

The concept I will be using is how that “Creativity is going beyond the current boundaries of technology, knowledge, social norms or beliefs or seeing and acting on new relationships, thereby bringing them to life” (Anderson, 1992, p.42). I’m a part-time wedding photographer, so the more creativity will offer a better paycheck. Over the years, my photography has been getting a lot better and it shows in my photos. Getting critiqued by my friends has helped my creativity grow to many different aspects. My older cousin has been the most helpful when critiquing my pictures. Having an outside view of your own work will help your creativity to open its doors. He was a huge help in getting my job off where I am now today. I believe that creativity is experienced through different perspectives and is grown though critiques and inspirations. I’m thankful that photography has helped me create some “artsy-fartsy” creations at weddings.