It is suggested that boredom begets creativity*. My mother would often say “necessity is the mother of invention”**. They present apparent opposite views on creativity. Or, … both attentive activity AND attentive inactivity are the parents of creative thinking. It is our incognizant state while always pursuing the unimportant that usurp the creative mind.
*Austin Kleon, Steal like an Artist
**Evelyn Marie Helen (O’Conner) Miller, 1915 – 2007
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