—Barbara Kingsolver

If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like?

Creativity may feel like the beginning of everything, but in the beginning there was no creativity. In 1950, when Guilford delivered his address, creativity as a field of research was virtually nonexistent. In fact, the word “creativity” itself was a recent invention, having only been inducted into standard English dictionaries after World War II.

Finlay Cowan