The Essence Is Creativity
The essence of this great gift that we finally evolved to, our intelligence, is creativity. We have the capacity to create initiatives that will break through our previous levels of thinking, not only in math and physics and poetry and music but in every area of human activity. Creating and taking initiatives is the essence of thinking. To examine a problem and “see” a possible way of solving it that no one had previously thought of is “really living.”
From page 141 of “Don’t Settle for Too Little,” in An Unbounded Future
(Present Time 205, October 2021)