Title: Where does creativity come from? | Engadget
Headings: Where does creativity come from?
Where does creativity come from?
Content: Creativity? Is it playfulness, an escape from everyday duty and responsibility? Is it that stroke of genius you would love to claim as your own, except you cannot explain how it came to you, so how could you claim it as yours? Is it something reserved for other, more free-spirited people than your hard-working self? Or is it something central to who you are and how you interact with life, the universe and everything else? Let's agree on a loose definition to work from: Creativity is the process of making something both novel and useful. ( Rex Jung)
Useful doesn't have to mean practical; useful can mean getting to know yourself better, expressing something or allowing you access to a particular emotional experience. What are the ingredients of creativity?