<p>Does planning interfere with creativity?</p>
<p>Planning and creativity are two entirely different concepts which might come together but cannot possibly interfere with one another. Creativity pertains to how one chooses to act and planning pertains to how one systematically carries out either that activity or any other activity.</p>
<p>If planning were to hinder creativity,or vice versa, then nuclear research ( let us leave out the politics) would have not been as efficient and as fruitful as it had been during the 1930's and the early 1940's. Through efficient government organisation and planning both the USA and the USSR were able to speed up the research, which is essentially the creativity of scientists at work, to meet the needs of the war.</p>
<p>Even without the urgency with which creativity in scientific research was called for, of creative activities such as science, music or art. Scientific research demands a systematic record of all experiments and their findings. Music composers need to plan as to how many instruments would constitute the piece of music, how to time it , and how to structure it among other things. Artists, mainly sculptors, need to picturise and roughly sketch out what they want to create. All of this is, in its own way, a form of planning.</p>
<p>Therefore, planning is a crucial prerequisite for any creative undertaking, which can easily go awry if it planned poorly. So, to conclude, creativity and planning go hand in hand.</p>