CreativiTators are those people whose use of their own gifts
of creativity has enlightened, entertained, inspired,
motivated, and/or challenged us in ways that have caused us to
want to draw more and more on our own creativity to
enrich our own lives--and bless the lives of others. Even though
we may have never met them, their influence on various creative
aspects of our lives has been as strong in some ways as the
influence of a one-on-one motivator and mentor
would have been!
Why
CreativiTators?
Most people are
satisfied to go through life being spectators and consumers of
the creativity of others. They may assume that creativity is a
gift that is only granted to some small subset of humankind, and
that it is limited to those people who are either artists,
entertainers, or inventors! So of course, they need expect
nothing creative of themselves.
This is a
deceptive fallacy. As our
Creativitism Mainifesto says elsewhere on this site, “It is
the birthright of every human being to use a creative approach
to every aspect of life.” And therefore, “People of ALL ages
should be encouraged, inspired, motivated, and educated to use
their own God-given creativity to its full capacity.”
One of the ways
to be encouraged, inspired, motivated, and educated this way is
to look at the life’s work of people who have indeed used some
aspects of their God-given creativity to their full capacity. It
is our goal on this website to provide a rich and varied
potpourri of profiles of the work of such men and women for our
visitors.
Disclaimer:
We have not
included the men and women on this site, in the
CreativiTators 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's 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.
