We make jokes or playful comments about what is going on in our world. We fantasise about about what we'd like to happens to us or imagine ourselves whisked away to a life of idleness on a tropical beach. And, each night, we dream dreams as compelling as Spielberg, as weird as Dali, as lurid as Tarantino, as tense as Hitchcock, and as action packed as Tom and Jerry. By waking up and forgetting almost all of this unique and vivid dreamwork, we throw away enough ideas each night to keep Hollywood in business for years. That is how we are, all of us.
Creativity is there all of the time.
It is easy, spontaneous, effortless, abundant, and an entirely natural part of being human. You don't need to try' you just need to be. Yet people are often demoralised by low self-esteem when it comes to creativity. And it is all too easy to lose sight of the difference between creativity and originality. If you think that you must be original to be creative, you are going to spend a lot of time being unnecessarily hard on yourself.