If so, you're carrying the idea of a creative genius. Someone who is creative because they are a genius. Someone whose very existence keeps you down.
But they're a myth. Something you've created to justify your own fears and insecurities.
(See how powerful your creativity can be?)
I hope you relish the magnitude of busting this myth wide open: creativity does not come from genius. Creativity is a biological process. Nothing more, nothing less.
It's built into the structure of the animal neuron, part of the same mechanism that drives evolution by natural selection.
In other words, our brains evolved to create original chains of action that sometimes happen to keep us alive.
Creativity might look like the newest myoelectric limbs, like a new beak on an old species of bird or like a Dutch masterpiece.
It might look like you imagining yourself in a new role (see the weekly prompt, below).
Here's the powerful part: because creativity is a scientific process, you can practice it methodically and see consistent, practical gains.
Reorient your creativity—away from imagining the bogeyman that keeps you down—towards imagining new courses of action. Let us know how those first intentional lurches toward genius make you feel.
