working theory that being creative is less about originality and more about having the executional intensity to make many ideas real coupled with a high capacity to resist the fear of humiliation
one of the latest big theories in neuroscience says that humans are fundamentally creatures of prediction, and not only is creativity not at odds with that, but it actually goes hand in hand with improving our predictive power. Life itself, in this view, is one big process of creatively optimizing prediction as a survival strategy in a universe... See more