CREATIVITY

Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or organize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others. Let us discuss some of the stages which are involved in a creative process.

STEPS IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS

• PREPARATION: This is the very first stage in the creative process, where we go through examining new ideas, alternatives, or possibilities for a specific task. Here we also make notes and gather initial research material so that we can work upon them. When we think that our initial research and preparation work is done then we will go on to the next stage or else we will still do our work until we will find some solid facts and figures.
• INCUBATION: It consists of giving support and aid to the development, or we can also refer to this stage as the development phase where we work on our initial works and brush up on them so that we can perform later processes on it. We perform operations like working on different ideologies, making new theses, and generating them in a piece of work that can be recognized by others. In this stage, our main motive is not to develop the idea, alternative, or possibility into legitimate work. In place of this our main motive just widening our topic and going deep down into it so that we can understand and explore every single aspect of our work.
• ILLUMINATION: Here we use the output of incubation and develop it further so that it can be shown as legitimate work and now just an idea that is in its initial stages. Our main motive in this stage is bringing the work to its final and ultimate phase which was not yet discovered by anyone else. So hereby finally reaching the end stage in its development stages, we will continue with the formality stages later on.
• EVALUATION: Now it is time to evaluate our work by comparing it with the standard one and coming to the conclusion that whether it has any value or not. It is usually done by comparing it with the previously examined and verified works related to it. It is done by an expert who has a previous experience with it and knows how to conduct a heuristics evaluation we can also do it by just having slight knowledge of evaluation in our subject.
• VERIFICATION: This is the final stage where we verify our work by going through keen scrutiny of all the methods, protocols, and operations followed. It first verifies the structure of our workflow and then goes deep down more in detail by circularly examining every point of fact. First, we check all the methodology briefly in the first iteration, and then we will go into a more detailed view as each iteration is in a loop and ends only when all things are get checked and verified.