Creative Genius Person

So, you ask about a creative genius person and I immediately think of Beethoven.  Beethoven is a creative genius because of all of the classical music he has composed.  If you look, Beethoven composed many pieces of music over the span of his life time, even up until his death.  At the age of 25, he made his first appearance in Vienna as a composer.  Also, because of his condition in his late 20's, Beethoven was diagnosed as deaf.  Even though he was diagnosed with deafness, he still continued to write some of the greatest music of all time.  He wrote chamber music, sonatas, symphonies, and even quartets.  He wrote over 9 symphonies in his lifetime.  Symphonies are generally 45-60 minutes long.  So writing 9 symphonies is a very big accomplishment in his life.

Genius is a very broad perspective.  I think Beethoven is genius because genius is someone that has creativeness and something that everyone appreciates.  Without Beethoven's songs and symphonies, some of the music eras that existed back then would probably not exist today.  Without his great composing, the romantic era and the classical era might not have ben as big as it has been.  And because he came up with new things, he is a genius because if he didn't compose these things, they would have not existed in that time period.  

Is Education Becoming The Death Of Creativity?

So, some people are thinking that in our education system, we are destroying creativity.  In Ken Robinson's TED talk, he really goes into detail about how our education system is killing creativity.  Which I do have to agree with this point.

During all of his talking, Robinson tells a story of a girl who couldn't sit still and couldn't learn.  The teachers told this girls parents that she had a learning disorder.  When taken to the doctor, the doctor simply told her mother that she's a dancer.  Moral of the story is that she became one of the best dancers ever.

Anyway, as I drift off into another tangent, the moral is that if she would have been put on some kind of medication, she would've never figured out that she was an amazing dancer.  Also, during this time, dance was not taught in school (and its still not taught today).  In my opinion, these kinds of fine arts should be required in school because everyone can be this musically talented if they start out young and are educated into it, kind of like a math or a science.  If these things were taught normally like math and english and what not, they would become more like common sense and everyone would do them.

Being in music, I have seen everyone usually in music seem to be more smart.  And to be honest, I'm not sure why.  They always say that people in music makes them smarter.  I do see it, I just don't know how to analyze it.  But yes, fine arts should be a requirement in each educational year.

~Nick

Revision and the Creative Process

So what is revision?  Revision is basically seeing something from a fresh view and editing it.  Although, by definition, it seems like it would help, some people think that revising is not good for whatever you wrote.  But, you could disagree saying that revising is just taking your first work and making it better by reading standards.
Revision takes a lot of time because you have to look at every detail of many things.  And while sometimes you can ruin things that you've done before, most of the time, you end up making a better version of the first draft of whatever you created.  Many people don't revise and end up making what could have been a great piece to read, into a complete mess.
As I've stated before, revision is a huge part in the creative process.

~Nick