The Creativity Crisis
AND HOW MUSIC LESSONS CAN HELP!
Is our dependence on technologies is killing creativity?
This is not a new idea; researchers and experts have long claimed that technology is killing creative impulses. For example, check out Jessica Stillman’s article in Inc.com, which mentions the Torrance Test, a scientific instrument for creativity measure that has been showing declining numbers for decades. Others say that we are raising a robotic generation whose primary social contact is via the internet and who are losing the capacity to communicate and interact with people face to face.
If we fill our downtime with screens, our creativity declines. Children (and adults) who are always engrossed in their phones, tablets, or computers lack activities that foster creativity.
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Overcoming the Creativity Crisis
According to one study, we need downtime to imagine, since rest increases our creativity. Taking a walk outside, for example, greatly assists our brain in drawing together ideas that may not have been present in the middle of our usual tasks. Music is another dependable way to leave the world of tasks and timelines, and let our mind wander down creative paths.
By browsing through gadgets in our spare time, we are limiting our ability to daydream. Creativity is often described as a “use it or lose it” discipline. Even if you work in a creative field, you may be suffocating your creativity by being tethered to a gadget.
Creativity may be produced via means other than one's own imagination. The fact is that ideas and concepts that may lead you to the discovery of your creativity can also be acquired from others.
Music's Influence on Mental Health
Music has a structure. Even though it is a type of auditory stimulation, it does not have the same effect on the brain as noise. It contains pace, pitch, harmony, timbre, and order. In fact, research indicates that music may help us become more creative, because our brains are stimulated in the right way by the structure of music.
Listening to music on a regular basis will help you become much more creative.
What music lessons add to the picture is better, more aware listening, combined with total attention on what you are doing. That change of attention is what makes the difference in the quality of your experience.
Music will also assist you in a variety of other ways you may not have considered. Because music aids in the growth of people's social interactions, it can become a conduit through which ideas may travel, as well as emotionally healing as you connect to other people.
So, the next time you are feeling down and unmotivated to accomplish anything creative, turn to music or play an instrument. And, without a doubt, thoughts and creative ideas will spontaneously flow through you. In both ideas and feelings, you’ll find that the stimulation of hearing music while being around others helps you come alive with insight.
Using Internet To Take Music Lessons
The Internet does not automatically brain-deadening young people; in fact, the reverse should be true. The Internet is the world's biggest and most complete encyclopedia. There is enough knowledge available to become an expert on virtually any subject. It should produce a generation of youth who are very informed and skilled.
So instead of wasting time on the Internet browsing and scrolling things that hold no real-life value, you can spend your time online learning something meaningful. Use the internet as it was intended to be used; boosting creativity and knowledge.
Music lessons are becoming more and more versatile, and the pandemic introduced everyone to ways we can accomplish teaching online. We are just at the beginning of a new chapter of accessible music for all; let’s turn technology to our favor and use it for music.
Join us at EdwardsViolinStudio.com and be a part of individuals looking to cure the creativity crisis through music. We offer virtual and in-person lessons; let us know what works for you.