No, no, no. There is spontaneity, impromptu performance too, these could with a spark of inspiration and subjective directional channeling of skills produce masterpieces in a very short time. And there are creative pieces we dote on because we have the facility of time and spend time adding and removing, shading and colouring just to get the best tone and perspective; they get better with time but they could equally have been achieved in less time. Creativity and time have no proportional relationship.

We are living in a world of technization and serialization, where technical procedures are globally commercialized. I am sure that your 'life-time-input' argument will be confirmed by the quantitative study of creative scientists and artists. The result will look like a slowly growing human life cycle curve, which suddenly reaches its peak or 'creative point of no return'. The master/slave function of the human brain also supports the 'life-time-input' hypothesis; slave functions are calculatory, while master functions are imaginative.

No, no, no. There is spontaneity, impromptu performance too, these could with a spark of inspiration and subjective directional channeling of skills produce masterpieces in a very short time. And there are creative pieces we dote on because we have the facility of time and spend time adding and removing, shading and colouring just to get the best tone and perspective; they get better with time but they could equally have been achieved in less time. Creativity and time have no proportional relationship.

From a songwriting and song production point of view. There is usually a point , especially it seems when collaborating, that those involved collectively decide that continuing to make, create or produce the song would only offer results that would grow incrementally smaller over time. I call it rather uninspiringly 'the principle of diminishing returns'.

Yes, if the creative person get ample time to work and think, his or creativity may express at a better way.

But if you allow time to the persons not having creativity, it may increase the number of lazy persons or even anti social criminals.

'Creativity' is achieved by 'Imagination' and no relation with time as younger person may be more creative than aged person.

'Creativity' is enhanced by 'Freedoms' guaranteed by 'Society' or 'Nation' at large

Thank you very much for adding your impulse and genuine replies to the question- Stephen I. Ternyik , Shibabrata Pattanayak , Arben J Salihu

your answer is valuable input to me.

Consumption of larger time span directly proportional to creativity? I don't think so. Why?

Because, creativity is congenital, indigenous and very intrinsic. Creativity comes only when a person thinks out-of-the-box, different from the traditional world!

A person who is out of the usual league surely is creative and won't act or speak like the common ones do!

Regards,

I agree with my colleague dear Dr. Sahar Qazi, thanks a lot.

I agree with Sahar Ghazi

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Not necessarily!

creativity is positively related to time management as daily planning behaviour, confidence on long-range planning, perceived control of time and tenacity and negatively related to preference for disorganization. after planning creative ideas, they should implement it as innovation and then evaluate it. Therefore creativity relates to time management not just time consumption.

Not at all!

Creativity comes largely from a combination of a fully open mind, a creative mentality, (i.e. the habit of leaving preconception aside coupled with problem solving skills,) and a mental storehouse of disparate supporting concepts, analogies in other arenas and codependent factors that can be immediately drawn upon for inspiration.

That being said, when I was in college I saw plenty of students and professors who would "creatively" come up with entirely novel yet fundamentally crippled concepts due to lack of a critical function which must immediately follow and be coupled with raw concept generation. The time issue that Sandeep asks about comes in the phase where the wonderful new concept is then worked through to bring it forth into practice or manufacture without losing the exciting essence of its novel approach.

Skilled creatives know when to think outside the box and when to shift to performing the hard and nuanced work of taming the wild beast of a new idea without breaking its spirit.

There is a great article: Markus, B., & Oldham, G. (2006). The curvilinear relation between experienced creative time pressure and creativity:" Moderating effects of openness to experience and support for creativity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91(4), 963-970, which deals with this question directly. It supports what I have seen over 16 years as an art teacher and longer as a practicing artist. There is a goldilocks zone. Too little time, and an individual will curtail his/her creativity to finish "on time." Too much time, and perfectionism and other factors can interfere, with nothing ever brought to completion. Completion is key for allowing one to move forward and grow.

Thank you Jennie Mizrahi for adding an answer , very useful link.

Sandeep Sharma

There is no direct proportion between Time and Creativity

The above affirm, supposing that it refers to the time dedicated to a certain activity, and that through which and with the time of dedication, creativity arises and increases?

In the real life of an academic and a researcher there is no such relationship, although if it is feasible with the study, dedication and application of such knowledge, new knowledge can be identified; and with it, increasingly increasing creativity but in a saltatory way, as Dawkins stipulates in his theory of evolution.

regards José Luis

Thank you Toby Welles for answering the question..

If time is the only requirrment for us to be creative, then we can all become creative by spending more time!

Time is money...

If we spend our time learning from people of different backgrounds, learning arts and languages and travelling around the world..

The answer is then.........Yes.

Creativity makes one free from time and space; one is no longer aware the limitations and boundaries of time and any other thing that hinders creativity. Ocean of creativity spells its charm, to the extent, that time and space becomes irrelevant.

Sahar Qazi

i respect your views,

In my experience, time is the important component of creativity. The more time you spend seeking a creative solution, the deeper you can get and bring forth something ‘more creative’.

Will is another one… you need to activate yourself. Be creative means, start exploring the unknown, move torwards the limits.

Not necessarily.

It is unwise to open a bottle of wine before its time. It is equally unwise to keep a wine which must be consumed within a few years too long. So it is with the creative process. Some ideas require long periods of thought, others emerge quickly. Both types, as has been noted, require a person to reflect, evaluate and revise so as to bring the creative process to a point of maturity.

Although hard work will not necessarily bring creative results, the fact is the most creative people work hard. The constant production of Dickens and Shakespeare testify to that-but each was in a particular creative field that demanded the expending of energy.

Writing has individual processes. James Joyce's production may seem limited compared to many other writers but his methods required the continuous going over of his sentences and paragraphs to create inner textual music. As did Hemingway. Sometimes artistic ambition limited publication but still the effort and energy employed was immense. In contrast, many 'pulp' writers, producers of easily forgotten writings, wrote and write immense amounts.

So perhaps an additional issue here is quality.

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The truely creative do not pay attention to time.

the more creative the less is the time consumption

Thank you attention by answers

thank you for adding your point of view

Dear Stanley Wilkin

“Although hard work does not necessarily bring creative results, the fact is that most creative people work hard”

i like that - I also feel that creative people are driven by a creative force so maybe it just flows through they and “they” do not work so hard - at least from their inner point of view.

I know I am playing a little with terminology here but I am sure you get it.

انه متناسب ولكن حسب نوع الإبداع فالابداع العلمي يحتاج إلى الوقت اما الإبداع الفني فلا يتناسب مع الوقت إذ هو الهام يأتي دون سابق إنذار

It is proportional but according to the type of creativity, scientific creativity needs time, either artistic creativity is not proportional to the time as it is important comes without warning

thank you for adding your point of view.

@Wahag Abass.

Creativity needs more time, or greater energy in a shorter time