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What is creativity?

Ming Thein · 15 Aug 2020 · blog.mingthein.com ↗

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  1. Our reading

    Creativity consists of curiosity combined with the foresight to imagine what a new combination of ideas could produce.

    Their wordsI believe creativity is really two parts: curiosity and the ability to not just ask "what if?", but also use some foresight to imagine the potential outcome.

  2. Our reading

    Making connections across different disciplines makes a person more creative.

    Their wordsThe better a person is at making these cross-disciplinary connections, the more creative they tend to be.

  3. Our reading

    Creativity is never created from nothing but is always a derivation from existing elements, with greater creativity meaning a more distant derivation.

    Their wordscreativity is never about making something out of nothing: it's always derivative in a way, even if 'more creativity' means a more distant derivation: 1+1=5, instead of 1+1=3.