One of my students yesterday said, for him, that creativity is the freedom to generate different ideas.
For me, I have a more traditional definition I guess: the motivation to make art. What do y’all think?
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Aha! Right, creative is not necessarily artistic. Practical creativity isn’t something I’ve heard much about, but it sounds neat!