A brief history of creativity (and power)
Creativity was once reserved for the gods. Now it seems to be the domain of the powerful. How did we get here?
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.
