In a speech about creativity, John Cleese begins by admitting creativity is "literally inexplicable"—it just can't be explained. Freud denied that psychoanalysis could shed any light on creativity. Creativity is not a talent, he continues, it is a way of operating.
It's not an ability that you either have or not have, and it is absolutely unrelated to your IQ.
Cleese concludes that creativity is a way of putting yourself in a certain mood—an "ability to play" with ideas, not for any immediate practical purpose, but just for fun.
I disagree on a pretty fundamental level.
