Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things”

That was Steve Jobs in an interview.

And that’s right, it’s “just” seeing things and connecting them.

Creativity comes in a way that it sees something, it makes the connection and brings them successfully into another context / realm / discipline. (Marty Neumeier — Metaskills )

And Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (I know, almost impossible to read/write/pronounce correctly), author of “Flow” and “Creativity” defines creativity as “the ability to see (opportunities)“.

You and your business —you see things. Opportunities. Another way of seeing not only the problem, but the approach, and the solution.

Now the question to you is: What do you see?

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