In Fact, The Only Way To Remain

Creativity Shouldn't Be Seen As Something Otherworldly. It Shouldn't Be Thought Of As A Process Reserved For Artists And Inventors And Other 'creative Types.' The Human Mind, After All, Has The Creative Impulse Built Into Its Operating System, Hard-wired Into Its Most Essential Programming Code. At Any Given Moment, The Brain Is Automatically Forming New Associations, Continually Connecting An Everyday X To An Unexpected Y.

Creativity Is Not A Trait That We Inherit In Our Genes Or A Blessing Bestowed By The Angels. It's A Skill.

We Travel Because We Need To, Because Distance And Difference Are The Secret Tonic Of Creativity. When We Get Home, Home Is Still The Same. But Something In Our Mind Has Been Changed, And That Changes Everything. Several New Science Papers Suggest That Getting Away Is An Essential Habit Of Effective Thinking. When We Escape From The Place We Spend Most Of Our Time, The Mind Is Suddenly Made Aware Of All Those Errant Ideas We'd Previously Suppressed. We Start Thinking About Obscure Possibilitiebsthat Never Would Have Occurred To Us If We'd Stayed Home.

It Is Ironic But True: The One Reality Science Cannot Reduce Is The Only Reality We Will Ever Know. This Is Why We Need Art. By Expressing Our Actual Experience, The Artist Reminds Us That Our Science Is Incomplete, That No Map Of Matter Will Ever Explain The Immateriality Of Our Consciousness.

While Human Nature Largely Determines How We Hear The Notes, It Is Nurture That Lets Us Hear The Music.