Week 2 Journal: Reflection on Creativity/Innovation Self-Assessment Tools

A key element of the creative process is your own awareness of your aptitudes and inclinations. Understanding your own creative profile can help you discover hidden abilities or confirm what you already perceive about yourself. For this journal assignment, you will explore a minimum of two creativity tests from the list of websites below:

• Our Creative Brain. – http://www.shelleycarson.com/creative-brain-test

• How Creative Are You?. – https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/creativity-quiz.htm
• Test My Creativity. – http://www.testmycreativity.com/
• How Creative Are You?. – http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/uzzi/ftp/page176.html
• Which Innovator Are You?. – https://www.nesta.org.uk/quiz/which-innovator-are-you

In addition, read Chapter 9: Why Do We Create? The Roles of Motivation, Mindset, and Passion in Human Creativity and Chapter 10: The Creative Personality: Current Understandings and Debates from the Plucker (2017) text.

In your journal assignment,

• Explain how you perceived your own creativity prior to the assessments.
• List which assessments you explored.
• Explain how the assessments either confirmed, confounded, or altered these initial self-perceptions.
• Discuss the value of such self-assessment exercises.
• How do your findings relate to the theoretical issues discussed in Chapters 9 and 10 of the Plucker (2017) text?
• How can gaining further insight into your own thought processes enhance creativity in ways that will spur innovation?
• Provide at least one specific example of a discovery about yourself gained through the assessment activities that you can apply to your work in your area of interest.