Creativity

 What constitutes true creativity ?

Instead of a straight-line development from idea to fruition, the creative process is more like the crooked branching of a tree.

When we see or experience something we must be able to look at it from several angles, to see other possibilities beyond the obvious ones.

We imagine that the obiects around us can be used and co-opted for different purposes.

We do not hold on to our original idea out of sheer stubbornness, or because our ego is tied up with its rightness.

Instead, we move with what presents itself to us in the moment, exploring and exploiting different branches and contingencies.

We thus manage to turn feathers into flying material.

The difference then is not in some initial creative power of the brain, but in how we look at the world and the fluidity with which we can reframe what we see.

Creativity and adaptability are inseparable.