Creativity is the connectedness of all of our experiences. Creativity isn’t only for “creatives”. Creativity goes beyond art, writing, music, performance. Athletes are called creative when they do something we’ve never seen before, something improvised with their body, decision-making and ability. Creativity in business when people pioneer decisions. Creativity when we fix something around the house but we had to MacGyver it.
Creativity seems like it should be creating from nothing. Making something out of thin air. Totally unique, totally imagined. But nothing can be made with nothing. Try to think of something that is completely imagined, totally unique, as in there is nothing a part of it that already exists. Is it even possible to imagine such a thing?
Creativity is how we connect all our experiences and letting that be expressed in what we do. In a way, that creativity is how we interpret and see the world.
Let’s not end creativity in a soloist endeavor. Creativity is discovering what’s to be discovered to be able to share with the rest of us. Let’s be generous with our creativity.