if only a few people were creative.
It just doesn’t make sense. But we
have to be able to describe the reason that we don’t think the same
way, because we clearly don’t think
the same way. So somehow how do
you put those two things together?
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Everyone is creative but we don’t all
create things in the same way. And
so that was when I started studying some of the psychologists who
have done so much work in creativity and realised that we could put
these two things together and they
could both be true. But you have to
look at creativity as something that
is different from person to person.
And once you make that assumption it actually falls into place very
quickly.
MM. Is everybody creative?
KJ. Yes, and that is definitely not
the common view in many places.
Many people say only certain people are creative. As I talked about in
the book, they will separate people
in many different ways, into these
piles of creative and non-creative
people. And when I started to think
about it and started to read about
a few psychologists and a few scientists who disagree, who say that
everyone is creative, I found their
reasoning to be very sensible. If
you think about what we have
accomplished, as human beings
on the planet, we couldn’t have
accomplished what we have done
MM. Can you give an example of
two different creative people?
KJ. You have sort of the popular
view of a creative person as someone who is overflowing with ideas
and those ideas are pretty radical, they push the limits of things,
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