I'll try to give a more practical approach to complement other answers. I believe creativity (in specific field and broadly) is a skill like any other that you

I'll try to give a more practical approach to complement other answers. I believe creativity (in specific field and broadly) is a skill like any other that you need to cultivate and practice. It's also much about problem solving, identifying needs, connecting ideas, and learning (i.e. having a good pool of knowledge), than apparent. The more of each of those you have, the better you become at innovating and creating in your field. When you go into the world, you need to go asking yourself "What could we improve here? What could we change here?". If you're in a creative (artistic) field, it's a good idea to survey the work of others and develop "taste" -- i.e. your own perceptions of what's good material, and what things could be improved. I'd suggest a few things: (1) Develop a space. Decide what you want to create, and give yourself a dedicated space for it: 30 minutes a day, a few times a week, you name it. I'm pretty sure with the space you will star making things, whatever you like. (2) Learn supporting skills and knowledge. Each field has necessary skills to really be able to create -- software skills, hardware skills, math, writing, drawing, art theory, etc. (3) Survey what's out there. If you're a game developer, play games and develop your own ideas, what is my dream game like? What defines a good game? What's missing out there? What can I actually make with my means? You'll be able to feed back into your creations. If you're an engineer, the world is waiting to be improved upon as well :)