Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.
In my mind, creativity is consciousness.
What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.
Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.
For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.
I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.
Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.