Creativity and intelligence
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Creativity and intelligence
Contrary to the widely shared view that intelligence and creativity decline with age, I have personally noticed that my intelligence and creativity increase as I age. As I age, I find myself more adaptive to changes. In this case, I relate intelligence, specifically to fluid intelligence. I adapt more easily to new tasks and create solutions to unforeseen problems than I used to do when I was younger. As I age, my thinking becomes more divergent. I can generate multiple ideas in response to a single challenge.
The different forms of intelligence include crystallized intelligence and fluid intelligence. A crystallized intelligent person can use knowledge and experience acquired over time in problem-solving challenges. For example, most people in their later years can cope with enormous changes such as retirement, widowhood, and adapting to loneliness through crystallized intelligence. Fluid intelligence on the other hand is one’s ability to solve new unprecedented challenges. A fluid-intelligent person uses logic to adapt to new situations. People who possess fluid intelligence have divergent thinking and can come up with different ideas while responding to a problem-solving challenge.
Some of the problem-solving strategies that I use now different from those that I used when I was younger lies in the area of my solution to interpersonal problems. I am more focused and I tend to use avoidant-denial strategies in solving interpersonal problems than I did when I was younger. This has made me more effective in problem-solving. Currently, I function more independently and use to choose proactive strategies instead of directly confronting the instrumental problems that I experience while trying to reach my goals. At my current age, I invest more energy into strategies that I have effectively used when dealing with a certain problem in the past compared with when I was younger.