Creativity

Creativity is a far more complex issue and its relation to flow is not obvious. "Optimal experience" has been described by gamers or programmers and enhances without doubt productivity, but does not necessarily entail creativity. According to Feldman (1994), creativity should be studied and therefore facilitated by the teacher at three different levels: (1) the social field, (2) the domain (symbol systems of knowledge) and (3) the individual. Table <a href="icool03-schneider.html#0_48942" class="XRef">See Creativity variables.</a> lists some important variables that could be beneficial for creativity.

Creativity variables

Level of analysis		Some important variables that correlate with creativity
Individual	Intellectual traits	existence of ideas complexity of thought complexity of conceptual structures augmented reflexivity
	Personal traits	sensitivity for the environment preference for complexity intrinsic motivation for getting a job done capacity to produce sustained efforts and control over the process capacity to transformer subconscious material capacity to find a balance between the desire to transform and the desire to preserve important elements
	Cognitive structures	domain expertise existence of "networks of enterprise" (goals, projects, etc.), i.e. some sort of general "purposefulness"
Symbolic environment (domain		presence of a symbol system that authorizes and generates new possibilities
Social environment ("field")		a network of people who provide support, instruction, evaluation, recognition, etc. cognitive and affective support system "faustian deals"