Who is the most creative human being who ever lived? These days, if you put the question to Google, it will spit back a dispiriting answer: Elon Musk. When I pair “Elon Musk” with “creativity,” Google produces 17.2 million results. By comparison, when I pair “creativity” with Mozart, I get only 15.9 million results; with Michelangelo, 12.1 million; with Albert Einstein, 4.4 million; with Archimedes, 4.4 million; and with Leonardo Da Vinci, a pitiful 2.4 million.Quite obviously, Musk is not the m
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Creativity is an excellent thing to aspire to, most of us would agree. Self-help books, TED talks, corporate memoirs all talk up the value of creativity. It’s no longer seen as the preserve of artists.