Dharya Rana
When you think of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, creativity may not be the first thing that appears to mind. However, creativity isn’t just needed to write a novel or to be an artist. Creative thinking is also essential for training the brain to know how to meet real-world problems fearlessly.
There is nothing more thrilling than creating an excitement, a buzz, for learning in students, but there doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day to teach creative and critical thinking, as testing is sucking the very life out of students.
School success and career success lie in two different dimensions; you need skill and creativity to live a contented life. One can be successful at a few things and fail at others at the same time. Anyone can earn good grades, but in life, innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.
So tell me how your mind generates groundbreaking ideas while practising retention of theoretical stuff over a hundred times per day? Or maybe it doesn't, as it never thinks out of the box.
By the IV volume of Genetic Studies of Genius, Lewis Terman concluded, at any rate, we have seen that intellect and achievement are far from “perfectly correlated.” It doesn’t matter how smart you are in your studies or how many questions you answer in your class; what matters is how you can reform and add value to our country. Steve Jobs once said, “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.” They choose the road not taken and have risk-seeking behavior, which has made all the difference.
When you have nothing to lose, at the age of 18 or 20, you become blind for safety and security in your career. Who doesn’t desire that? But it comes with high-risk aversion, which means people tend to prefer outcomes with low uncertainty to those outcomes with high risk; if a student excels every class since he was a kid, his reality starts to alter. He can’t stand to fail or take risks. Many students have transcendent intellect, but the ultimate predicament is their attitude of staying risk-free. This approach creates a society where everybody wants a safe job, but nobody yearns to create.
Creative people don’t fit the mould; they are not like most people, so they wind up on society a bit, and a lot of the time, they are not “money-making machines.” They engage with different new things that encompass their surroundings and make the most out of them. And the fact is, creativity is not a talent. Every child is creative, but a child himself has to effectuate how to expand his mind. A bright student may have an excellent memory to retain answers that others don't, but he can't outrun an average student who creates things and adds a meaningful impact on the world.
India is a victim of brainless competition without innovation. Education is supposed to make capable individuals, not memory devices. A child who scores 99% is put on a pedestal, while a child who loves to draw cartoons and make comics is considered a society’s failure.
Albert Einstein is known for greatness as he said, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
Living according to societal norms is disgraceful; for them, career has always been money-driven, but with the profusion of opportunities available now, one need not correspond to society’s old-fashioned standards. Be exceptional, and if you like creating comics, don’t hesitate to showcase your talent, don’t let those characters die in your sketchbook.
Instead, go out there and show what you got because we must lose our fear of being wrong to live a creative life.
The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before, so be YOU and create what you want to create.
Thanks for reading,
~Dharya
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