23 observations about creativity

Harry Ven
2 min readJan 7, 2022
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  1. Creativity is removing the foundation of your building one brick at a time even while you are residing in it
  2. Creativity is the attempt to fly when you can’t even walk
  3. Creativity is looking back at the future and looking forward to the past
  4. Creativity is watching your telephone conversations
  5. Creativity is making sense of the whispers
  6. Creativity is a perfect cocktail of reality and non-reality
  7. Creativity is bending reality to allow for more imagination
  8. Creativity is the ability to find meaning in your actions irrespective of the odds of success
  9. Creativity is seeing our deepest fears with an eye of curiosity
  10. Creativity is thinking without a hand even though you have one
  11. Creativity is tampering with reality
  12. Creativity is having a conversation with the problem over a cup of coffee
  13. Creativity is changing the meaning of past and future events
  14. Creativity is rejecting existing explanations and digging deeper for new ones
  15. Creativity is taking all the rules of reality and removing them one by one in the world of imagination
  16. Creativity is allocating space in the mind for an improbable situation
  17. Creativity is producing new meaning with old ingredients
  18. Creativity is questioning all the rules the world is built upon
  19. Creativity is hearing your pictures
  20. Creativity is actively believing in something that is not real (yet)
  21. Creativity is seeing the present as the journey of the past towards future
  22. Creativity is thinking of a cat while looking at a zebra
  23. Creativity is seeing the present as “the future in slow-motion”

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Harry Ven

Enabling mind conversations that matter at https://www.konvos.me. Tech enabled extended cognition .