It is often said that learning knowledge from study is more important than developing creativity. This is because knowledge is very practical by playing a pivital role in obtainning a good score in GPA. However, creativity has a invaluable worth more than just learning knowledge for the following two reasons: making people successful, improving the skill of dealing with difficult situations.
To begin with, creativity makes people competitive by choosing unique method others would not imagine, which is the key to success. In current society, creativity is the vital factor for success because it has many unexpected events due to the complexity and high-speed more than ever. Steve Jobs might be the prime example of this. Eventhough he never graduated college and never focused on acculmulate a chunk of knowledge, he created so many exellent gedgets which no one would imagine and invent. There are many people having high knowledge, but it is not that all those people can acheive such a success. It would be possible when having creativity.
Next, creativity helps people handle tricky and delicate situations because it include the competence of seeing the circumstances flexible. For instance, I have two friends, Sue and Min, who are smart and brilliant. Sue placed knowledge on priority. Min thought that creativity is more important. They started a business together, and faced with difficult situation financially. Sue stucked with the mannual, but Min tried to other way to go through this problem. Finally, Sue gave up his job because he thought that the hardship was beyond his expectation and concluded this situation cannot be handled. On the other hand, Min considered it can be dealt by applying various solutions, and waited for the right time to do something. Finally, Min overcame the situation and acheived big success in his business. |