Why we need fiction, and why we pretend.

So if people are naturally creative or not, to what degree does 'encouraging' creativity even work? And do we understand this enough to know what aspects of creativity we are encouraging, or rather I should say: do we know how to encourage the 'good' parts of being creative and not make people into schizophrenics/sociopaths?

Stressing the importance of actively engaging everything that you take in and the way that you take it in, so you can synthesize and maximize and!

Ten characteristics of creative people. (Basically, they're a beautiful mess of contradictions.)

About creativity, the importance of keeping at it, and "morphological synthesis."