Creativity as in non-incremental, real new creativity, is about connecting things that are not connected. You connect a boulder going down a hill with a Piece o

Creativity as in non-incremental, real new creativity, is about connecting things that are not connected. You connect a boulder going down a hill with a Piece of wood a friend carpenters into a table- and you got a wheel. Now the brain is ruthlessly efficient when it comes to not do things that are not rewarded. Beeing creative means having tons of such connections missfire- and if you do not reward that process over time, by following some of the more plausible misfires- your brain will reduce that behaviour. Conciously rewarding these missfirings, and not supress them by filtering out "irrelevant nonsense because we already have a ideal procedure" is a way to train for more creativity.