Cuero Interview

The Cuero interview offered a very interesting perspective on creativity that I had never thought about before. One of Cuero's main points during his interview was that understanding nature is what leads to more creativity. He believed that all of the technology that children today grow up with is limiting their scope of creativity. He also stated that creativity comes in small steps and is a long process. I disagree with those statements because technology has enabled people to be creative in ways that were not available to previous generations. I do not believe creativity is a long process. I think it is something that you are born with. The design vs. art article described design as a calculated and defined process. The article described art as something that conveys a message or can inspire an emotion. The definition he gave for creativity more aligns with the definition of design. The article about why some people are more creative than others explained that there are three main networks for creativity and creativity is a balance between controlled and spontaneous thinking. Technology has the ability to offer its users controlled and spontaneous thinking and therefore has the ability to aid one's creativity. The study in the article did conclude that more research needed to be done to determine if the ability to use the three creative networks in the brain were malleable or were they relatively fixed. I think that everyone has some level of creativity. However, some people are born with a higher ability to use their three creativity networks in their brain. The environments that people grow up in have the ability influence their creativity but it is not the determining factor. The determining factor in a person's level of creativity is their genetics.