Creativity as an Innate Quality

Creativity is a natural quality. We are all creative. We are born with this capacity, an internal engine of resources for surviving in our environment.
As children, we are endowed with curiosity, which drives us to explore, and with a predisposition for play as a way to build meaning and better understand reality.

Creativity in Everyday Life

The creative process is always present because we need to find solutions moment by moment in our lives.

• Solutions we already know we solve automatically, like opening a door.

• But if the door gets stuck, we invent new strategies.

This act of connecting ideas to create something new is what makes us human. Wolfgang Köhler demonstrated this with his experiments with chimpanzees: when a banana was hung out of reach, the chimps stacked boxes to get it.

What We See and What We Think We See

Life flows in constant transformation. The feeling that things “stay the same” every day is a result of our memory: the brain generalizes to save energy, ignoring details irrelevant to survival.

In reality, everything is changing. Creative blocks begin when we resist what IS.
“I don’t know” simply means I don’t know right now. Accepting that opens the door to exploration, discovery, and creation.

The Balance Between Focus and Stillness

Interacting creatively with the environment requires:

• Focus: attention directed to something, internal or external.

• Stillness: presence and observation of what emerges.

Too much focus narrows perception.
Too much stillness lacks energy.
The art is in finding the balance.

The Learned Denial of Creativity

Traditional education guides us toward certainty, linearity, and predictability. In that process, we lose trust in our own perceptions and learn to deny our creativity.

Creating involves risk: making mistakes, being judged, or criticized. Living creatively becomes an act of self-love, honesty, and compassion.

Reconnecting with a Fresh Gaze

When we reconnect with our creative process, we regain the ability to see things without labels. Just as they are.

• Not as we were taught.

• Not as we assume.

• But as they appear here and now.

A simple exercise: observe an object for five minutes. You’ll notice details you hadn’t seen before. The less you look through what you already know, the more new things you’ll see.

Creativity in Work and Life

To innovate professionally, you need a combination of knowledge and absence of prejudice. Deep knowledge of your field allows real novelty to emerge.

In everyday life, creativity is also a resource for solving conflicts. It doesn’t depend on intelligence, but on presence: being still, internally silent, and breathing in what IS.

“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.”
(Thomas Alva Edison)

Obstacles: Fear and Self-Criticism

Fear pushes us away from the new. It makes us react with rigid patterns and seek control.
Self-demand and self-criticism do something similar: they try to guide us but pull us away from creativity.

When these adaptations become rigid, flexibility is lost. The child who stays silent because others laughed at their idea learns to avoid risk. Gradually, we stop trusting our own creativity.

Returning to Flow

Life always presents itself as new. Living creatively means accompanying this flow, building with what emerges within and around us.
Creativity is a verb, a dynamic energy in motion. It is not limited to art or intelligence; above all, it is about the experience of being oneself.