Defining Creativity

What does creativity mean to you?

Creativity has been defined by many throughout history.

Sigmund Freud defines creativity as conflicts and the creative process is a way to resolve conflicts. He was mostly concerned with the motivation for creativity and less with the process.

Carl Jung believed the creative process occurs in two modes:
psychological - the content of art comes from the human consciousness
visionary - creativity comes from the depths of what he called the collective unconsciousness.
He see creativity as a gift held by those capable of the visionary mode of expression.

Roger von Oech said creative thinking involves imagining familiar things in a new light, digging below the surface to find previously undetected patterns, and finding connections among unrelated phenomena.

Here is the dictionary definition:

Common definition from Webster's - Creativity is marked by the ability or power to create to bring into existence, to invest with a new form, to produce through imaginative skill, to make or bring into existence something new.

One of my favorite quotes about creativity:

You cannot use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.
Maya Angelou

What does creativity mean to you?
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