THE HISTORY OF EGYPTIANS CREATIVITY

Every single thing in this world has their history. Even creativity, something abstracts that cannot be explained has history. Let see the example what I was talking about, look at this picture:

What can you conclude from this picture?

Even you are not realized it, all the people in this picture already make something creative to find the solution of their problem.

In the past Egyptians have to make pyramids for their King Pharaoh, It will be used as a tomb for the King family. In the first time, they didn’t have any problem to make it. But, after the pyramids become bigger and taller the workers have difficult to make the pyramids. That’s why the workers try to find the solution to make them easier to reach the top of the pyramid so they will finish it as the deadline. But in case to build the pyramid they use the same technique using shadoof. Shadoof was commonly used to move water. A shadoof is a long pole, weighted at one end, perhaps with a stone, and a vessel on the other end, used for raising water to irrigate the land. They pulled down the vessel, filled it under the water, and then easily lifted it by the counter weight.

These water lifting machines showed that the Egyptians knew something about weight, fulcrum, adn balance long before they built the pyramids. Their ability to see or sensitive to the problem, flexibility of thinking, redefinition (gives up old interpretations of familiar objects and uses them in new ways) show that they already being creative in this era.

The problems to build all the pyramids make them become more creative and make another invention and innovation to finish it.

All the process Egyptians do when they build the pyramid are the process of creativity. 

Inspiration, in which they are generate a large number of ideas. Means that they got the ideas from anywhere and inspired by what they saw before. 

Clarification, in which they are focus on their goals/missions. All the worker try to finish the pyramid as soon as possible, that’s why they try to find the solution how can they done the pyramid as fast as they can. 

Evaluation, in which they are review all what they do and look back over their work in progress.  The workers have the difficulty to continue build the pyramid so they evaluated their work and try to find the solution to make it easier.

Distillation, in which they decide which ideas to work on. They already try all the solution and in the end they find the best ideas (the shadoof device).

Source: http://www.greenfields.u-net.com/docs/perspiration.html
              http://www.is.wayne.edu/drbowen/CRTVYW99/Guilford.htm
              http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/koslow.htm