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1). Provide an example of creativity from your own experience. How does it fit with the chapter's discussion of creativity?

According to the chapter, there are many definitions of creativity. The most basic definition says creativity is "going beyondthe current boundaries of technology, knowledge, social norms or beliefs" and "seeing and acting on new relationships, thereby bringing them to life" (Anderson, 1992, p. 41). Creativity just basically means doing something new or different. My friends and I are very creative by this definition, something that I wouldn't have otherwise thought prior to reading this chapter. For example, we are contantly cooking and preparing new dishes. One time in particular, my friend made scrambled eggs, but to be different and new (and goofy) he tried putting in every kind of spice that was available in the cabinet. Granted not many others thought it tasted good (but him and I liked it actually, we swear by it), but no one ever said creativity had to taste good, right? Another time, a few days before we were going to go to a dance club, we decided we needed to learn some new/better/more dance moves. So what did we do? We went onto Youtube and searched for just that. We found this one instructional video that taught a specific type of dancing and all of us stood there in front of my laptop practicing, step-by-step. These examples are probably not the most traditional forms of creativity but going by the chapter's definition they fit.