Blogpost #6 : Rejection Into Creativity

Did you know that when you got rejected by others, this will be a big chance for you to be more creative? how? On my observation, being rejected is like you failed on your final exams. When you fail on the first semester, it's possible that you can improve your grades. According to the psychology that when people got rejected, there could possibly that their brain gets active.

I remember the time that I wasn't able to speak with my blockmates because of being socially rejected and being judged through facebook. When I got this deep depression of mine, I wasn't able to hang out with them and enjoying my solitary like eating alone in the cafeteria or reading books alone in the library. When my professor told me that I should draw something of what is in my mind or how I feel today, I realized that I have full of thoughts inside my mind and I expressed it by my anger and depression then after I finished drawing, my blockmates saw my artwork (the picture on the right) and they appreciated it. I never felt so good after being appreciated by others because it was my first time that I was being appreciated by my artworks.

When I felt being appreciated by others, I was so curious that how did I become so creative after being rejected so I managed to read two articles through internet. The first article I read is called "People don't actually like creativity" by Jessica Olien. On the topic that I read, it tells that some other people will never appreciate creativity without being rejected because the one who will be rejected remains to be blinded by his/her ideas.

According to Jessica Olien that "Perhaps for some people, the pain of rejection is the pain of training for a marathon - training for endurance."

The author was trying to say that rejections are same as mistakes, you will experience it from the beginning but in the end you will overcome your mistakes by learning the right path. The author gave also an example that when a student got rejected by a teacher by his/her creativity, it means that the teacher was doing this for the student to make the right path by his/her creativity.


I read another article called "Rejection May Fuel Creativity" by Meggan Gannon.  This article tells that independent people are the one is who experienced rejection by the group. The author made also an experiment that there are 12 participants that they need to measure their uniqueness and if the others don't follow the instruction, they will be rejected. After the eperimentation, the researcher rejected few participants but the researcher made another experimentation that they need to draw an alien and so they did  and they got results that the participants were creative like drawing it them or use them as a word.

 According to Meggan,"...imaginative thinking in people who already have a strong sense of independence. "

It tells that independent people are very creative than by group because groups don't have the same imagination on their ideas while independent people have it's own creativity.

I remember the time that my professor announced that we have to make a group projects, I experienced that everyone has a group except for me and I was really felt bad that it's either they're already full for the group or no one really wants me. I decided that I told to my professor that I'm going to have an individual project and he allowed me to make individual project.

When I started to make a project, I think it's better to be individual because no one will interfere your creativity or no one will disagree your work and after I finished all my works, my professor was impressed that I did all my own and he gave me an extra grade for being so creative and independent.

The thing of what I'm sharing about what I experienced of making an individual project is that when people rejects you from the group, this will be your only chance to be inspired by others who also experienced rejection and make your own ideas that no one will disagree your ideas.

It's true that you need a group for survival on your life but being with the group can be sometimes are being dependent with each other. Lastly, all you have to do is to believe in yourself that no one will reject your creativity if you have hopes on yourself because if you don't have hopes that you can't do anything,it might be possible that people will reject you.