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                     %CREATIVITY AND AUTOREGULATION 860619

     Creativity  entails a person doing something which is
new,   has  not  been  pre-programmed.    People  who  are
conformal are not creative; they merely keep on conforming
to behavior patterns previously set down.

     Creative  people interact with their  environment  in
ways  which  are  responsive  to  new combinations between
elements  in  their present environment  and  elements  in
their  past.    The newness is born  of  new  combinations
between the internal  and  the external environment.   The
behavior is not born  just of old elements in the external
past or of their memories within the creative person.   It
is the consideration of the new relationships  between the
past and the present which is the womb of creativity.

     Creativity  entails reflection upon the relationships
between the environment and the self,  and the  generation
of  new relationships between self and environment.   Such
reflection  involves the self in active  participation  in
the  reflection  and entails aspects of the  self  as  the
object  of reflection.   Creative reflection by its nature
is both objective and subjective in its focus.  Creativity
entails judgments of  relative importance, values,  worth,
priority,   etc.    Not all new combinations are of  equal
importance,  value,  worth or priority.   The  essence  of
creativity  is the ability  to  consider  new combinations
which  occur in the interface between self and other,  and
to make value judgments regarding upon which  combinations
to focus further attention.

     Compulsively  objective people who believe that  they
must focus all of their attention upon other than self and
none  of  their  attention  upon  self---are not  free  to
creatively  examine the new relationships which  occur  in
the  interface  between  self and other,   to  make  value
judgments   regarding   which   new   relationships    and
combinations  are most  worthy of added attention,  and to
decide to act in terms of such creative  judgments.   Thus
compulsively objective people can  not  be fully creative;
they are conformists to a behavior pattern set down in the
past.    They are inhibited by their exclusive ideals  and
values  which keep them  from integrating their  objective
and  their  subjective worlds of perception  and  insight.
Creative people actively seek to integrate  both objective
and subjective worlds in keeping with  integrative  ideals
and values which transcend any tendency toward exclusivity
might undermine any kind of integrity.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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