Emotion

Today in class while discussing the concept of the connection between Knowledge, Imagination, and Creativity, the idea of Emotion was brought up. Emotion was said to be the single factor that pulls all of what was mentioned with regards to Knowledge, Imagination, and Creativity together. That made me think a little more about the power of emotion in things. Emotion or emotions are the driving or pushing force behind every single thing that we do in life. Emotions, when in the right state of mind can cause one to finish a task at hand when it seems that it will never get done. For example, once while I was completing an assignment for my Historiography class I became very tired and lazy and did not want to complete the assignment. I figured, well I've never skipped this class before, why don't I just go to bed considering that it is 4:00 in the morning and do it some other time. Realizing that was a stupid reason to skip the class my emotions pushed through and I finished the assignment.

Now a question I pose, can emotions be the driving factor in everything in life, from art to leisure activities?

Talent

Today in class we discussed the concept of the difference between talent and skill. To some a talent can be anything from juggling juggling balls on a stage in front of an audience or singing a song in a musical production. To others, a talent can be being really good at a particular subject such as math or science or just having a tremendous amount of perserverence and sticking too something when it seems like nothing will ever make the task at hand worth it. A skill is recognized by some as an ability to do something exceptionally well but not really needing a tremendous amount of talent. A skill to some is being good at a craft such as making bird houses and other things of that nature. Basically, to some a skill is a hobby. Therefore, a strong definite definition of a talent is something that is innate and almost second nature to some and a skill is something that is learned and takes time to perfect.

Now a question that I pose is could something that is ones skill also be something that they are talented at?

Knowledge

Today in Class we discussed the connection between Knowledge, Imagination, and Creativity. Knowledge is everything around us. Everything outside of our own stream of consciousness. Imagination is internalizing everything that we have learned from the knowledge. Imagination is making the knowledge that we have learned our own thoughts and ideas. What makes Imagination so special is that it is our own unique thoughts. Creativity ties all of it together into one tangible idea or thought. Information is out there, it becomes knowledge when we make it our own with our own imagination. The creative aspect of this is each and every single idea or thought that we use knowledge and our own imagination to create is unique. Uniqueness is something I personally feel ties these three together as well. Doing something that nobody has ever done before, or thinking up something that nobody else has ever thought up before makes us unique. Allowing our imagination to flow and comprehend everything that we have thought up and make it our own is what makes us unique as living species.

Now a question I pose is, is there an in between step between knowledge becoming our imagination and it still being just knowledge?