Celebrating World Creativity and Innovation Day

Creativity is one of those concepts we all think we understand and a word we easily toss around. But, if you actually had to explain it, you’d soon find out it’s quite a tricky thing to pin down.

Go on. Try it; define creativity.

Exactly. It’s a very broad term that can be applied in numerous ways across countless disciplines, and thus makes it a bit of a head scratcher as far as narrowly defining it.

It’s probably so difficult to define because creativity means different things to different people. For some, it’s interpreted simply as artistic expression, which we can all relate to. Everybody’s been struck by inspiration at least once in their life. Perhaps it led to an artistic pursuit they’d rather forget. That half-finished watercolor self-portrait hidden in your garage can attest to that.