INspire me...Jason Gomez
Creativity & Design Blog Synthesis4/27/2018 Prior to registering for this course, OILS 420: Creativity and Technical Design, I thought, “This course should be a breeze!” I mean, how hard could creativity actually be? Nevertheless, as I proceeded through this course and through my personal blog posts, I began to understand the challenges surrounding creativity within a structured environment. Creativity itself was not the culprit. The challenge for me was integrating creativity within a technical environment, which placed parameters over my creative process. Normally, creativity is very subjective. The sort of, ‘in the eye of the beholder’ adage. However, within the confines of this course, creativity became a bigger beast and more objective than I had imagined. A confine that I experienced through this creativity course, were the requirements for my blog posts. However, since I have never created a blog prior to this course, this aspect was actually quite welcomed. What I found though was that a lot of the time while creating a post, I began to focus a lot more on the requirements of the post than the content of the post itself. With that said, I feel that my creative process actually thrived through a more structured approach. This is something I felt hindered my creativity at first. As I reviewed my blog timeline, I realized how structure actually helped me express my creativity; it helped me to communicate my creative process to an audience. I soon realized that the content of my creative posts were meant to tell my story to others, not solely for my own introspective. I reluctantly let go of the, “how can they give me rules for my own creative work?”, and I embraced the idea that I needed guidance to better communicate the inner-workings of my mind to the outside world. Here is a video that also helped me as I explored communicating through this course: Cain,S.(2012) The Power of Introverts, YouTube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0KYU2j0TM4 The lessons that I've learned through this course that I will appreciatively use moving forward. As an introvert, I find it difficult to communicate my ideas and self-promotions to an external audience, and to have those ideas make any sense. Through this course, and through my creativity blog, I am now better equipped to tackle this.
Thank you for joining me on this journey! Respectfully, Jason J. Gomez
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