We are used to think that creativity is about someone having a brilliant idea out of the blue. The truth is that creativity is about how we adapt to change and how we create change. And for many it is not a magical act of getting suddenly out of the box and thinking up something that has nothing to do with anything that already exists. For many creativity means a long chain of small, even imperceptible, steps. And every next step is built upon the previous one, and every next alteration is the extension of what was before. None of those steps on its own would provoke associations with a creative genius, but it doesn’t mean that it can’t lead to a new light bulb.
There are people who think unexpectedly, getting their crazy ideas out of nowhere, but it doesn’t make them more creative than the others. Others, with their small steps and imperceptible changes, can get the same stunning results. The ways of creativity are inscrutable.
