My Creativity

I can remember a specific time in my life where I felt "in flow" with my creativity. The paper was on Dante's "Inferno", and we were given broad directions to where to take the paper. I decided to compare the book to baseball, and assign cetain players who have disgraced the game throughout history into different levels of hell. I also decided to write the paper in prose, something that was very new to me at the time. It remains my best paper to date, and I am proud of my ability to transform a work of literature from the domain it is in the mix in with baseball, something for which I had alot of knowledge about. After this course, I now realize that creativity can occur everyday, not just when I have a moment of "flow". Any time that I work on something, as long as I put in hard work and explore new possiblities, I am being creative. At work for example, I recently had to film a baseball game. Usually, I am in the stands filming. However, it was raining this day, and I had to find a way to film without getting the expensive camera wet. I went under the bleachers and stuck the camera out of the opening in the bleachers to film. People thought I was crazy, however, I was able to film and stay dry at the same time. My creativity turned into usefullness, and I will now remember what I learned from this course so I can improvise and innovate in the future.