Creativity Does Not Float Above Skill

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People love to talk about creativity as if it floats above skill. But the reality is creativity needs raw material to work with.

It needs patterns, it needs facts, it needs examples, rules, exceptions, and procedures, and all this has to be loaded into your long-term memory in order for you to think creatively with it.

‘Cause you can’t think with knowledge that you don’t have. You can’t cook with ingredients that you don’t have.

Further reading: The #1 Killer of Creativity (and the #1 Unlock) .

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