Reflex and intuition can be at odds with creativity. They embody things we already know. There is often a natural, organic-feeling quality to the "spark of geni

Reflex and intuition can be at odds with creativity. They embody things we already know. There is often a natural, organic-feeling quality to the "spark of genius," but the process leading up to that point (considering problems from other angles, reasoning abstractly) is itself more a "System 2" thing. Or at least that's one idea. Certainly we should separate the claims that "creativity requires discipline" and "executing on creative ideas requires discipline". The latter is certainly uncontroversial, but I haven't thought long enough about the former to know whether I agree with it.