True Creativity Is the Subconscious Mind Combined with Intuition and Rationality

Thanks to advances in neuroscience, we are closer to a true definition of creativity — those seemingly inexplicable moments of clarity and invention — than ever before. Creativity is a quality of the mind, not[image error] aninherent characteristic or specific activity. Put differently, there are some very creative accountants just as there are some very uncreative painters —it all depends on the person doing the work.

So what does it take to be creative? At the very least, it takes an openness to overco...