Recently I spent an afternoon at a local Panera Bread restaurant creating a Christmas card for my wife. I brought several old trade glossy, colorful catalogs and cut out numerous colorful shapes – some were simple geometric shapes, others were abstract shapes, and some were meant to be animals but ended up looking like giant amoebas. I arranged the colorful pieces on a white paper and glued them according to my whimsy. It’s not much to look at but my wife liked it…more for the gesture than the art I think. This common kindergarten arts and craft activity was unexpectedly enjoyable. Perhaps because it was such a simple, yet rare creative activity.
I asked myself “how many times during the course of a typical day do I engage in creative activities in which I am creating rather than consuming other people’s creativity?” I wondered what my creativity index might be like for a typical day, where the creativity index is simply:
Acts of creativity / Acts of consuming other people’s creativity
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