Creativity

one, criticizing someone is easy; two, creating something original is very hard; three, but somebody’s got to do it.

Therefore, creativity does not happen inside people’s heads, but in the interaction between a person’s thoughts and a sociocultural context. It is a systemic rather than an individual phenomenon.

As individuals, if we want to be creative, we need to give ourselves space to play and experiment without a set agenda. Amos Tversky famously said that the secret to doing good work is being a little unemployed so you always have hours in the day to waste as you wish. During that wasted time, you’ll likely have your best, most creative ideas.

the accumulation of learning, an inevitable byproduct of the process of growing up, takes us not closer to but further away from our creative source