What’s Your Creativity Score?
Creativity Skills Test
It’s a short survey, about 25 or so questions, that scores you in four ares, Preserves New Ideas, Seeks Challenges, Broadens Skills and Knowledge, Changes Physical and Social Environment. Then after you submit the questionnaire, you are given scores in each area and a cumulative score. Mine was 63%. Apparantly I need to seek more challenges and change my environment more. It’s a great venue to get yourself thinking of your environment and life; how you interact with it.
This past year, I’ve relocated across the country from Nebraska to Washington State, moved from Tacoma to Seattle. That’s changing my physical environment. Had to furnish my apt, talked to new and interesting people. Maybe I need to get out more?
It’d be interesting to see how other people score and react to the test and their scores. What would you do differently in your creative life for home, work or around town? How do you interact with others? Have you done anything outside your ‘comfort zone’? I really haven’t. Unless you consider being out at night when the criminals and addicts are panhandling.
January 14th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Brick. Thanks for blogging about my post about Dr. Epstein’s creativity test. Based on my own score I clearly need to liven things up around here. If the job of software is to free our minds from repetitive tasks and calculations, so we can be more creative, and to extend the reach of what our creativity can achieve, it’s ironic that so many of us (me included) fall into habits that hold us back. Time to bring some more artwork into my office, for starters–my own. And I think I feel an article coming on. BTW, welcome to Seattle!
January 15th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Thx Holly for the comment and warm welcome. I’ve always considered myself creative and artistic, but the test was an eye-opener! Back in Nebraska I have a storage shed full of household and personal items; among them paintings, pictures and artwork. Looking forward to getting them here, hopefully this year. Since taking that test, i’ve been thinking of ways to expand my horizons.