Mental explosives

Everyone has a creative side, whether they believe so or not. There's research that says there's no special mental process for creativity, just a lot of hard work. You sit down with a problem, throw out ideas until you hit a wall and think you're tapped, then the real work begins. Once you state all the obvious solutions, the cliches, the work that's already been done, then you start moving into uncharted territory and that's where innovation lives. And it hurts, it's not a pretty process. You kind of want to kill yourself every time. But once you hit it all the pain pales in comparison to the exhiliration of finding that golden nugget. And you don't hit a home run every time, so don't expect that. But the big idea is in there somewhere. And only you have it, because no one else can think of it the way you do because they're not you. You'll go down in flames occassionally, but that's part of the game. Every failure is setting you up for the ultimate victory. And those ideas that seemingly appear out of nowhere, they're a result of all the work you've done up to that point. Even if you're not actively working on the problem, that little rodent that is your subconscious is constantly turning your brain wheel. So if you're one of those people that say "oh, i'm not really that creative," there is something in you that no one else has and you just have to work harder to discover it.