The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.
I believe that all forms of creativity are related.
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 and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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.
Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.