Most people do not see themselves as being creative, but we all are.
Most people say, she paints," or "My father's
creative, he sings and writes music.
One of the reasons we don't see ourselves that way is that we normally
associate being "creative" with being "original." But in reality, creativity
has nothing to do with originality—it has everything to do with being
unexpected.
Even Mozart said that he never wrote an original melody in his life. His
melodies were all recombinations of old folk.