Creativity does spawn from constrained environments, as any game developer can tell you. Most of the beauty in hacks or interesting ways of getting around thing

Creativity does spawn from constrained environments, as any game developer can tell you. Most of the beauty in hacks or interesting ways of getting around things is the context of limited resources. I think people who are consistently creative can frequently either find an environment that constrains them (a writer taking a retreat to the woods, for instance), or tackles problems with existing constraints. If everything in your life is going well and there's not boredom, there's not a whole lot of purpose to creativity - you are however free to create constrained environments. Burning man for instance creates a lot of opportunity for creativity because its out in the desert, temporary, and must be packed up or burned afterwards. Same with living out in the country with few social connections. Its easy however to just get dragged down by depression or just the dreariness of boredom when living out in the country for me at least - there's a reason a lot of people turn to drugs in rural areas (in the US at least).