The princess is standing in front of the easel and wants to paint a picture. She is thinking about how much she loved painting when she was a little girl. She proudly showed off her masterpiece to the queen, who did not approve of it. The princess was upset and has never really moved past that experience. Every time she tries to be creative, she senses a happy impulse inside her, but then she hits a wall and gets an empty feeling inside
''Once upon a time, there was a woman who was really quite creative but who often hit a wall when she tried to come up with something new. She did not know that she still lacked the support of her 'inner' mother and father.''
The notion of creativity
One of the qualities that separate human beings from animals is creativity. Creativity can be defined as the ability to have new ideas and to express them (in an imaginative or artistic form).
To illustrate this, I could tell the story of a cello. Not just any cello but the cello created by Domenico Montagnana one summer day many years ago in Venice. An outstanding example of creativity with an impact that extends far beyond one person’s lifespan. The beginning might be defined as the tiny seed that, along with other seeds, grew into the trees which provided the wood that has now enriched the world for almost three centuries. All of this thanks to the human ability to transform the product of the right seed, which matured under the right conditions to become, ultimately, one of the finest instruments ever made.