One thing that's important to understand about creativity is a realistic understanding of our own creativity. Creativity can be measured and while there are some general similarities and a wide range of different techniques, many of them focus directly on the skills taught in this class. For the most part, creativity tests deal with divergent thinking. The ability to come up with a lot of different answers in a given period of time. At this point in time we need to develop an understanding of how creative we are right now before we start learning and becoming more creative. For best results, you should do as well as possible in the testing. By experience I know that your measured creativity will markedly improve in this course. After taking the test we can understand creativity a little bit better. Now that you've completed it, you should have an understanding of how creativity could be measured. To do this, you'll need some paper, something to write with, and a timer or a watch. Classic creativity testing often focuses on divergent thinking. The ability to generate a lot of ideas in a given period of time. A prompt is given, for example how many different things can you do with a brick? And I have a brick here. Try that now, for about 90 seconds. Set a timer on your phone to tell you when to stop. Now, come up with as many different ideas as you can. Most people can come up with several. Some can come up with a lot. And some are limited by how fast they can write. [BLANK_AUDIO] So the first evaluation of your creativity, is in counting how many ideas can you come up with? So count your answers. Linus Palling Nobel Prize winner said, the best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. That's the first measurement and it's called fluency. More answers also mean more chances to get unusual answers that are unique or weird, or really ground breaking. Unusual answers are those that are rarely found in asking a lot of different people, like less than 5% of the time. Unique answers are those that happen only one time among a group of people. For our challenge of developing uses for a brick, outside of construction or inside construction, here's some answers that are pretty common. Use it to build a building, to build a wall, to build a barbecue, to build a bookcase, lift a table leg, work as a candelabra, break a window, park a car on the hill. Did you have any of these answers? More importantly did you have any answers that weren't on this short list. Those answers are much more likely to be unusual, and counting those gives a second measurement called originality. So if we go back to our definition of creativity that being an idea that is novel and applicable, we can see how this connects with an idea for a brick. All of them were made from the brick, so they address the epical part of the question. Some of them were more novel than others. We'll test your skills again at the end of the term and see how you've progressed. You'll do better the more you practice coming up with new and unusual ideas. [SOUND] [BLANK_AUDIO]