Creativity is, first of all, to realize that we are uncreative people. We are puppets with strings in the past or in the hands of others. You know noodles, your mother knows noodles, even your grandmother may know noodles. So noodles are very well known. But all the other things will require a question mark; otherwise, you cannot know. So creativity begins with that question mark. Creativity begins with stepping outside your known zone.
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Questioner: Since childhood, I have been a little creative as well as studious, because that's the way of life, that's what parents tell you to do. So I used to dance, sketch, paint, everything. But then, as the years went by, I had to leave them behind. Once I came back to college, I started pursuing clubs, and I got back into being creative. But at the end of the day, when I did all these things and went back to my room and saw other people, like my peers, doing the technical stuff; I used to see them pursuing courses.
But then the thing is, I thought, "Why am I not doing the same things as they are?" I felt a little lost. But in your book (Truth Without Apology), There's this quote in a chapter which talks about: “When one is not caught in mundane rubbish, creativity just happens. You don't develop it. You only remove what blocks it. You can't cause creativity, but you can invite it. It comes on its own when it finds a clean space to enter.”
Now, this code broke the perception that I had: "Oh, I am creative, and I'm not doing tech stuff." So from you, I would like to know: what exactly is creativity? Can you elaborate on this? Because now that my perception has been shattered, I'd like you to elaborate on it.
