Intelligence (Latin intelligible understand) is used to connect the information together to understand and then act with relevance.
The problem is that this mode is only really effective in a field of knowledge closed and stable. It makes it impossible to understand the innovation, nor to invent original responses. For this you need creativity.
Creativity is the ability to produce new ideas to create value. This means, first and foremost be able to generate original ideas, innovative and improve on current issues and practices, it also means being able to anticipate and resolve problems not yet addressed, or that is common and often poorly defined or different than normal, problems which have yet to find satisfactory solutions, then, means to identify unique ways to exploit opportunities. Of course, choices must be developed that would result, at least in the long run, a net increase of "social utility". Investing in creativity
acquires a strategic value for businesses and people. For companies, this is to tap into new resources, exploited so far in small part. For people means relying on more stimulating work environments and dynamic, and above all, increase the satisfaction that comes from being a protagonist in the pursuit of excellence performance.
Creativity is not a gift, but a mix of skills you can acquire through study, observation, experience and above all, with practice.
results of a survey conducted by the national president of the American psychologists John Paul Guilford, were stunning: every person, regardless of their sex, their age, social status or education, has an important creative potential. The only difference between the creators and others, is that they use a portion of this potential, the other for anything.
Guilford has called this attitude of creating intelligence "divergent", and opposed to intelligence "converging", as defined by the famous IQ test to measure IQ.
has developed with his colleague Paul Torrance, tests designed to measure the creative potential of at least four criteria:
- First, the fluidity, measured with the flow, the quantity of ideas that a person is capable of producing on a given topic, in a certain time.
- The second, called flexibility, is measured by the number of categories in which these ideas can be classified.
- The third, originality, is simply an index of rarity, not trivialities.
- Il quarto, l’elaborazione, che introduce la presa in considerazione del reale e costringe ad uno sforzo anche minimo, di valutazione.