What is a "Big Thinker?"

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A Big Thinker is someone …

… whose creative vision was so expansive,

… whose life’s work was so ground-breaking,

… whose accomplishments in their chosen field of endeavor were so prolific,

… that their influence endures through many generations,

… and their fingerprints and footprints can be seen all over the cultural landscape even down to the present.

 

It is not our goal on this Creativity Crossroads website to provide a comprehensive collection of information on "the most important" (by some arbitrary criteria) such men and women from history and the present.  It is, rather, our goal to highlight a potpourri of such individuals who have been most influential in the development of our personal perspective on the importance of Creativitism--the promotion of the conviction that people of all ages and every walk of life should be encouraged, inspired, and educated to use their own God-given creativity to its full capacity.  

In other words--on this site we spotlight those Big Thinkers ... who have inspired us to become bigger thinkers.

 

Disclaimer:

We have not included the men and women on this site, in the Big Thinker section or elsewhere, for the purpose of offering any of them as “heroes” or “ideal role models.” No human being is perfect; most have at least a few glaring short-comings. And some of the people included on this website may even have whole aspects of their lives that are less than admirable. This is not surprising, as most famous people throughout history, no matter how great their accomplishments in some areas, have had feet of clay.

Consider King Solomon in the Bible: By the end of his life it is recorded that he turned away from the pure worship of the true God to following his many wives into serving their pagan gods! And yet his words are still recorded in the book of Proverbs in the Bible after almost 3000 years, and studied, admired, and used as a guide to life by both Christians and Jews. He may have ultimately failed miserably in his personal life, but his written words are still infused with the wisdom that God gave him in his earlier years. And he used the gift of verbal creativity with which God endowed him to craft some of the most memorable sayings of all time.

And so it is with each of the people profiled on this site. In spite of whatever shortcomings they may have had in their personal lives, the life work of each in their chosen field exhibits a creative spark that can be admired and even emulated, without the need to embrace those aspects of their lives that came up short.

Big Thinkers

 

Walt Disney

Jim Henson

Rod Serling

George Lucas

Steven Spielberg

Click on any underlined name above to go to a completed profile of that Big Thinker. The other profiles are in various stages of construction, and many, many more are on the way!