To be able to predict things.

The source of creativeness is originality.

Also worth to mention is the flow of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi

Intend without intend! That means open-minded with an inner direction (sort of intend, sort of direction to "the flow, the cosmic harmony") but not directed to an impact, effect or force.

Than (in harmony with the cosmic order) creativity can express itself and "great ideas can be born..."

The following exapmle may be helpfull to understand: In old japanese sword traditions the principle is called "aiki". An opponent attacks and in the mind-set of harmony is the inner orientation in trust in life, the skills and the ability to be one with the natural harmony. Than everything can happen because there is no ligation to an effect (like "I must win the fight"). Than a crative Action with the sword may reveal itself and what happens - happens. The opponent dies, beginns to laugh, to cry … or we die both, or I just die. In deep trust the cosmic creativity expresses in the force of aiki (the force of no-force - intend without intend). When two old master come into conflict nothing happens, both have no intend vbecause both have no fear, they both do not want to effect, to Impact, to win or to loose. After several minutes or Maybe Hours they take a bow and go further without any fight. If one of them hafe a fear, wants to effect, to win for just one second, he dies because he is trapped in himelf...

According to me to the creativity depends on the relaxation of our mind.

Dr Kamath Madhusudhana

Creativity is nothing special but an innate capacity of all living organisms, called learning process and is embedded in iterative decision making and problem solving cycles. Specifically to changes in perception angles (what if? position changes).

Flow as Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi calls it is simply enthalpy or the conscious experience of the information flow quality related to performance in general.

There are however internal roadblocks to creativity/information flow, which are arrogance, ignorance, shame, guilt, pride and prejudice. The external roadblocks are "stress".

If you talk about divergent thinking, the individual dimensions mentioned by you, Laith, have different degree of influence, according to a meta-analysis of 27 studies with a total of more than 47,000 people:

Article Meta-Analyses of the Relationship of Creative Achievement to...

For example, Elaboration has the highest correlation with creative achievement (r=.300). Fluency, on the other hand, has the lowest correlation (r =.195).

Creativity is a thrill (emotional energy, an internal “drug”) from novelty, originality, uniqueness, perfection ... perfection in reproducing complexity (for example, in music, in conquering mountain peaks)

Dear Laith Alsaadi

Sorry, I do not fully understand your question. But I try to answer anyway:

Fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration are the most common measures to capture creativity when using divergent thinking tasks.

There are also convergent thinking tasks, where you might measure the time and trials until the best solution to a task is found.

As for the underlying requirements for creativity: This is something different.

There seems to be a positive correlation of creativity with IQ until 120, but then personality traits seem to start to play a more important role (threshold hypothesis of creativity). Article The relationship between intelligence and creativity: New su...

(We do a longitudinal study on patients after stroke, to find neuronal correlates and possible mechanisms of creativity.)

Best, Nicole

Obstinacy. More than once, what I discovered searching frontally shock with what I've been told. Then, I have to turn humble enough to discover why.

Creativity is something new and original thinking and should be always encouraged

In our research we look at creativity being part of a generic problem solving process. This process is: Inspiration - Creativity - Innovation (solution to problem).

Unfortunately this is only the visible process, the invisible process complementing (limiting) the visible one is: forgiveness - reconciliation - redemption (from problem).

This might be an explanation for the high prevalance of depression (or bi-polar disorder) in highly creative people and at the same time illustrates the creative process which is a series of trial and error. For example, without forgiveness (of self or others/inside-outside covariation) for repeatedly making mistakes, there is no creative process. Before a truly creative result (innovation) is reached, there are hundreds of failed attempts.

Relating this to the concept of "creative flow" enthalpy, if errors cause entropy, forgiving erros works like negentropy and restores the flow.

Article A Dynamic Definition of Creativity