Creative ability isn't an "ability" so much as a modality people who are creative are stuck in. Creative people have an itch to make something. I think I am a c

Creative ability isn't an "ability" so much as a modality people who are creative are stuck in. Creative people have an itch to make something. I think I am a creative person and I don't quite even think it has anything to do with the quality of your work when determining whether you are creative or not. I say that because between people, if we want to draw a distinction which would motivate the definition of a creative person vs. someone who isn't, the range of creative impulse is so striking in how binary it is. It seems to me you basically feel the need to do it or you don't. Creativity is the persistent and powerful impulse to do something for the sake of doing it, not necessarily for money or attention, simply for the satisfaction of knowing once this didn't exist and now it does. That's all. Some people are intelligent, lucky, and hard working and may be they are Cervantes, Shakespeare, Beethoven, types, but that has to do with, I'd argue something separate from mere creativity...