Do Closed Doors Make Us Creative?

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“Closed doors make us creative” – These are wise words. Even though obstacles may suppress full creative potential, people become complacent if they are not impeded greatly. In fact, hindrances in life do promote critical thinking and initiate one’s latent ingenuity. There is an old saying that “When God closes a door, somewhere he opens a window”. Indeed, when facing a “closed door”, people often come to be more motivated, their minds are instantly provoked to look beyond the door, to seek for ways around it; behaviors like finding “a window” usually occur due to human creativity, instead of God’s will. In primitive times, man was exposed to the elements without a single defense. In harsh times such as winter, perhaps he would have to endure the bitter cold and the razor-sharp winds in silence. This torture compelled him to look for a source of heat with which he could stay warm, which eventually, led to the discovery of fire, an indispensible part of life, even in modern times. Another person who stimulates his creativity inside “closed door” is Ludwig van Beethoven, the most admirable composer of the eighteenth century. His parents died when he was very young, and as teenager he had the responsibility of working at any job he could get to make money to raise his younger brothers and sisters. All that time, he worked by day and night on his own musical education. Nevertheless, he did not get the name he deserved because of his intractable disposition. Yet, his greatest torment in life was his deafness –the greatest adversity possible for a musician and composer. He started losing his hearing around 1798, when he was only 28 and still in his first period as a composer. By 1816, he was profoundly deaf. Paradoxically, the more hearing he lost, the greater the works he composed. After his deafness, Beethoven continued to compose nine symphonies, five piano

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