Exercise 2. On Creativity

Creativity is nothing special. If you’re a person of average or more intelligence, then you are creative. Being able to have thoughts and ideas which you then turn into reality is simply an aspect of human intelligence and thought. The problem is creativity has become a calling card for a special magical class of person called The Creative. There are entire books describing this mythical priest of the art world who can imagine an idea, and with a wave of their insanely creative golden hands, craft pure emotionally intelligent empathic works of art that make the babies of heaven weep tears of pure platinum. Frankly the word “creativity” is an overused cliché that is used to segregate people from implementing their ideas, ...

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