Genius ...

In my opinion, a genius can be as big as a person who is an inventor that creates something that betters or helps out the society such as, Albert Einstein, but also, a genius could be as little as someone who is very good at problem solving or can make it out of different situations successfully. I think an example of a genius person would be my father. He was the first person to graduate from college in our family. He attended the University of Findlay for his undergrad, and then furthered his studies and received his Juris Doctorate from Duquesne University Law School. As an attorney, he owned his own practice in our small town of East Liverpool, and focused mainly on divorce cases, criminal and domestic law, estates, and social security. Not only was he good at solving his own problems, but was good at looking from different sides and helping others solve theirs. Even when the work got over bearing, he knew how to find solutions to ease it. Just because he was not a famous attorney that was well know all around the world, he was good at what he did and was one of the top around the area.

            He was also a person that even I would look to when I needed help with school, or if there was a problem between my sister and I. He would always give me a few solutions or ideas and would leave it to me to choose the best one. He was also a jack-of-all-trades, and knew a little about everything and how to fix them. All in all, I think that my father was not just a smart man, but had a genius side to him. I believe that anyone can have a genius side to them in their own, sometimes different, ways. Also, you do not have to be a famous person, or be a millionaire from an invention to be considered as “genius.”

In my opinion, education can destroy ones creative side in a way. I sit more on the fence about it. I think it depends on what type of class it is. Being in a class, such as math, one cannot get really creative because there is only a right or wrong answer, and you always want to be right. Also, one might not be good at math, so it kind of takes away from the fun that you might have in other classes. Some teachers want you to do everything their way, and there is no room for creativity. Others can be really creative with their teaching style, or assign a certain project that can help you better learn a subject.

            I think that elective classes are where you get to be the most creative. In high school, I took an art class. My teacher would give us a week to do a project that she assigned. She would then tell us an artist, and we would have to find a piece of their work we liked, and recreate it, or make it into our own work. We got to choose what colors were used, size of the paper, and the medium for the work. I actually enjoyed that class, although I wasn’t the best artist.

            Another class that I felt I was creative in was my foods and nutrition class. Once again, my teacher would give us a few general topics for the week on what we were going to be making, such as cookies, or a type of bread. My group would then look for a recipe that looked good to make, and each group would make something different. At the end of class, we would all try each other’s food and the teacher would pick whose was the best and we would get a few extra points, so we normally strived to be the top group. At the end of the year we baked our own individual cakes, made our own icing and colored it, and got to decorate however we wanted to.

I think that revision plays into your “creative process” by letting your mind expand and it allows other ideas to unfold. The article we had to read on revision said that you should take some time away from the paper, and then come back to it later. When coming back to it, you can re-read what you have wrote and you might think that it is out of order, needs things added to it, find a repetition in words or your idea might have evolved into something different then your original outlook. When you come up with an idea in writing, or just in everyday life, there might be some place needed for revision.

When it comes to writing a recipe, you can always make room to revise it because you want it to be very clear, and you want to make it as concise as you can. You can also sometimes revise the ingredients, make substitutions or make adjustments to the amount of ingredients used in the recipe.  You want the recipe to be easily understandable so a person you share it with will be successful in trying it, too.

When writing instructions or directions on how to make anything, there is always a long process. You start out with writing all of the steps, and sometimes you need to make it shorter. You should want to condense it so other people can easily follow it.