How Learning Creativity Changed The World!

Question: "Are you a creative person?" Well, it turns out that over half of the population would say no, so I decided to find out if there was any way we could change that.

Let's start with how I have been lying to people for, well, forever. 

Ever since I was a kid, I was always told I was very creative, and because of that, my whole life I've been telling people I was born a creative person and that some people have it and some don't, but there's just one problem: 

I don't know if that's true. Can anyone learn to be creative?

I mean, I have never met someone who had no creativity. 

Is it like a muscle where the more you work it, the stronger it gets? And that doesn't even answer the question: Why should we want to be creative? What's in it for us?

Okay, now that I have gotten ahead of myself, let's define creativity.

If you look it up, creativity is "the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work." And, basically, the definition is useless, so I decided to look elsewhere.

After doing some digging into some of the most creative people who ever lived, including Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Pablo Picasso, to name a few, I found that they all have very similar views on what creativity truly is, and honestly, it shocked me.

They all saw creativity not as something you were born with but as something you actively pursued. 

But not only that, they all saw creativity as a collection of everyone's ideas, not just one person's.

They all believed that to have creativity, you obviously first need to know about the thing you're creating. 

Steve Jobs once said, “Creativity is just connecting things.” Take the iPhone, for example.

Phones were for calling, and computers were for surfing the internet, but now they're one and the same. 

He took the information he had available and made something new.

But how do you do that? How do you take random things and somehow come up with an amazing idea?

Well, it turns out that was just one part of the equation. 

Albert Einstein once said, "Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else thought." He understood that to become a creative, you need to think like no one else.

Now, sadly, this is the hardest part, but with enough practice, it may just make you a superhero.

I have always been super into comic books, and if you had asked me as a kid what superpower I would like to have, I would have always given the same answer:

I wish I was super smart. Am I just expressing my insecurities as a child? 

Probably, but if you're anything like me, you've considered saving the world at least once.

However, as you grew older, you realized that radioactive spiders can only be found in New York and that the modern equivalent of superpowers is amazing ideas that shape the world around us, like the one's Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, or Bob Ross had.

How can anyone learn to be creative?

What did the great thinkers know that set them apart from everyone else, and what skills did they have that made it nearly impossible not to change the world around them?

They knew the importance of information and inspiration.

Notice how nearly all genesis are only genesis in one or two subjects, and that is where they got their ideas; they understood that what you learn is what you create, so they made sure to only learn about what they wanted to create; secondly, they took inspiration from other people; they understood that no one has completely original ideas, so they stole others' ideas and added to make it their own, As with the iPhone

But you may be asking, "Why should I care?" "I have grilled cheese sandwiches to eat, and I don't have time to learn creativity.”

And honestly, I don't know if you're anything like me; you probably spend 30 minutes debating whether or not to get out of bed in the morning, and you probably don't want to waste time learning to be creative.

But what I can do is tell you why I care. And it's because I want to live my life doing what I love.

What I do is follow my passions and teach others about them, and I can't do that without a creative mind.

I can't make letter after letter without an idea for the letter. Just like how you can’t excel at your job without problem-solving.

Throughout history, creative people have stood on top, molding the world around them and inspiring others to do the same.

But along the way, others began to think that creativity wasn't for them, and as a result, they never learned how to be it.

I created this letter to show everyone not only that they can be creative but also how important it is to follow your creative passions because we need them.

So, while you may not be able to fly or possess superhuman intelligence, you can be a creative genius.