Personally, I've always defined it as the ability to take two separate ideas and create a third one. The more creative people are, the more they have the abili

Personally, I've always defined it as the ability to take two separate ideas and create a third one. The more creative people are, the more they have the ability to make a connection between two less related items. I've often noticed the main difference between creative people and not so creative people isn't skill or intelligence or anything. Its the ability to not get phased by when you can't get an idea to work, you just keep plugging on like a small form of insanity even though you fail and fail. A biochemistry driven insanity I would say, I feed off the process of failing, and get massive elation when something that shouldn't work does work. To me failing is as important as succeeding, but the reward of succeeding is so much better. And like most things, people rarely see the long chain of failures, so assume a brilliance to what might be better classed as a madness ;)