Creativity is what makes life worth living.
The charge we feel when we're in the flow of creating is unlike anything else. Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi spent five years interviewing a selected group of one hundred exceptional individuals in an effort to make more understandable the mysterious process by which men and women come up with new ideas and things, how the creative process unfolds over a period of a lifetime, and what conditions encourage or hinder the generation of original ideas. Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi is a professor and former chairman of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago. The definition most people usually agree on is that creativity is a new idea or product which is socially acceptable and valued, and which is brought to fruition. Then we can talk also about creativity which is a more personal experience, which affects the way one experiences life, with originality, openness, and freshness.