Let’s take a close look at this account. It is basically wisdom being personified as a human being giving an incredible account of its emergence in history.
The creator creatively made me the first, the basic before he did anything else. I was brought into being a long time ago, well before Earth got its start. I arrived on the scene before Ocean, yes, even before springs and rivers and lakes. Before Mountains were sculpted and Hills took shape, I was already there, newborn. Long before the creator stretched out Earth’s Horizons, and tended to the minute details of Soil and Weather, and set Sky firmly in place, I was there. When he mapped and gave borders to wild Ocean, built the vast vault of Heaven, and installed the fountains that fed Ocean, When he drew a boundary for Sea, posted a sign that said NO TRESPASSING, and then staked out Earth’s Foundations, I was right there with him, making sure everything fit. Day after day I was there, with my joyful applause, always enjoying his company, Delighted with the world of things and creatures, happily celebrating the human family.
My Advice to All Those Who Are Desirous of Living a Creative Wisdom Lifestyle
So, my dear friends listen carefully; those who embrace these my ways are fortunate. Mark a life of discipline and live wisely; don’t squander your precious life. Blessed the man, blessed the woman, who listens to me, awake and ready for me each morning, alert and responsive as I start my day’s work. When you find me, you find life, real life, to say nothing of GOD’s good pleasure. But if you wrong me, you damage your very soul; when you reject me, you’re flirting with death.” Proverbs 8:29-31 culled from The Message
From this account, it sure looks like wisdom was closely beside the creator as a master workman; and was daily His delight, been happy with and for Him, joyful about the world, the earth he was creating and having his delight in human beings.
No doubt, wisdom and creativity are interrelated, inter connected subjects that are worth our exploring. Creative wisdom is the natural outcome of the interrelationship between wisdom and creativity. No doubt as the illustration above depicts, the creator used wisdom in creating everything that is now visible. In fact, creativity is a manifestation of wisdom in the context of excellence and integrity. Wisdom is personified in Proverbs 8, and is the companion of creator at the creation of all things.
Therefore wisdom and creativity must not be separated in the mind of a true creative practitioner. Wisdom and creativity are essentials needed to complete our assignment of being effective leaders. It is wisdom that makes our role in this world desirable. Creativity enhances the value of a thing. While most individuals have a value for creativity most do not have an equal value for the role of wisdom,. Yet it is creativity that illustrates the presence of wisdom: “Wisdom is vindicated by all her children… which includes creativity (my emphasis)” (Luke 7:35)
The six days of creation saw the most wonderful display of wisdom and art imaginable. As the creator spoke, the worlds were made. Light and beauty, sound and color, all flowed together seamlessly as wisdom set the boundaries for creation itself. Solomon, the man known for supernatural wisdom, discusses the co-laboring effect that wisdom had on that day in Proverbs 8 (see above).
Wisdom is given an artisan title of “master workman.” Note the even more powerful phrases; “rejoicing always before Him,” "rejoicing in the world," and "my delight in the sons of men." Wisdom is not stoic as it is so often pictured. It’s even more than happy; it is celebratory in nature and finds pleasure in the act of creation. But its greatest delight is in us! It has found perfect companionship with humanity. We were born to partner with wisdom-to live in it and display it through creative wisdom lifestyle and expression.
Creative Wisdom in Every Day Life
Creative wisdom exists when key elements such as; novelty, appropriateness, utility, wisdom and value come together. Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination. In expressing a creative wisdom lifestyle on a daily and consistent basis there are at least three distinguishing factors that will help you in manifesting. The first is the expertise or skills in a specific area. These skills represent your mastery of a field. To possess these skills means that you for instance know how to write musical notation, how to do scientific experiments or to skillfully use a computer graphics. The list goes on. Talent is a natural propensity to be able to produce great work in a particular domain. Most people have a flair for something but without training in the skills of a domain, even the most promising talent will languish. The second key element is the creative thinking skills. These are ways of approaching the world that allow you to find a novel possibility and see it through to full execution. These skills include being able to imagine a diverse range of possibilities, being persistent in tackling a problem and having high standards for work. The final factor is passion. The urge to do something for the sheer pleasure of doing it rather than for nay prize or compensation. Creative wisdom begins to express itself when individual are motivated by pure love and the enjoyment of what they are doing. A Nobel Prize –winning physicists Amabile recalls that he was asked what he thought made the difference between creative and uncreative scientist. He said it was whether or not their work was a labor of love.
The most successful ground breaking scientist ate not always the most gifted but the ones who are moved by a driving curiosity. To some degree a strong passion can make up for lack of raw talent. Passion is like “fire underneath the soup pot”, Amabile says. “It really heats everything up, blends the flavor and make those spices mix with the basic ingredients to produce something that tastes wonderful.”
Another major component of the manifestation of creativity wisdom in everyday life is in your way of seeing. When biologist Alexander Fleming came back from a vacation and found the bacteria in one of his dishes had died, he didn’t simply regard it as a trivial experimental failure as most biologists would have done. Instead he recognized it as something significant had happened even though it was not at all what he has been looking for. From his investigation of that “accident” came the discovery of penicillin.
This discovery illustrates what Robert Sternberg calls selective coding. The ability to sift important information from irrelevancies. Most of the information people get about a problem is of little or no use, while some is absolutely crucial. Detecting the relevant signal amidst the irrelevant noise is key to operating in creative wisdom on a day to day basis.
Another pathway to creative wisdom on a day today basis is what is called selective combination; that is seeing a way to combine the relevant information once you have detected it. You may be able to pick out all the right pieces. But being able to put them together is another necessary step. The ability to draw comparisons and analogies is also key in manifesting creative wisdom. Many creative breakthroughs are the results of juxtaposing elements or ideas that ordinarily do no go together or detecting a hidden pattern of connection among things. Analogies and comparisons help out things together in a new context or help you see them in a completely fresh way.
You have to turn things upside down, view the world differently. Says Peter Lissaman one of the thinkers at Aero Vironments, an innovative engineering firm that is notable for a long list of inventions. “ it is as though you have a beautiful Persian rug and you see a crimson rose in one corner and a deep red sunset in the other corner. But it is only when you turn the rug over that you notice that what you thought was the crimson and what you though was deep red are connected diagonally by the same thread and are really the same color. They just looked different because they were surrounded by different colors. In seeking a creative solution, using creative wisdom, it helps to turn a problem over and look at it from the other side. This is exactly when we saw happening in the opening story of this book. Then maybe you’ll discover the connections that have been hidden.
21 Best Ways to Stimulate CREATIVE WISDOM
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