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Creativity Is Not What You Think It Is

Often times in my life I have found people staring, gobsmacked, at a simple idea I have come up with and begun executing in my spare time. This is not because my idea was groundbreaking, nor because my execution of it was beyond the limits of mere creative mortals, but rather it is usually because they saw me doing the exact same thing with a wildly different idea last week. The fact that I finished that one and am now onto the next is for some odd reason, a foreign concept to them. This slack jawed observation is usually followed by a question that is rather curiously formed as a statement, because they assume they already know the answer. Of course as is true in most of life; they don't. The statement invariably goes something like this: