What is creativity?

      Is creativity originality? Or, perhaps, innovation? Good imagination? Do we get born with it? Do we ALL get born with it? Is it just that? Just a characteristic of our brains that exists only for some, and for others, not?
     Truth to be told, there is no universal definition of creativity. It is drowned in a semantic swamp. Marshall Dimock, political scientist, asserts:

     "The creative person is the one who is most skilled at including all factors, and especially the psychological ones, and coming forth with a conclusion that is better than others because it stands the test of time."

     A Freudian approach says that creativity emerges from the clash of opposites, from conflict. Others assume it comes out of imagination. When asked how did they come up with "that" idea, some say: "I don't know, it just popped in my head".
     For others, creativity is an ambiguous term, because it is used to characterise a person, an activity, a process, a product or all of the mentioned together, but when assigned separately, it is something else. Another thought is that creativity is associated with the unexpected, the spontaneous, or the unskilled.
     Of course, one of the oldest perceptions regarding creativity is that it is a hereditary ability, a neural mechanism that "runs in the family".
     Another definition is the production of novel, appropriate ideas in any realm of human activity, from science, to the arts, to education, to business, to everyday life.
     OR
     A sort of clue-oriented thinking process, within which new ideas are to be generated based on some clues from a previously structured relevant source(s). This is my personal favourite, because it presupposes not a special ability or gift that no one can explain, but an induced ability of the person that has the proper knowledge to generate ideas. This is the goal I want to pursue: making creativity a palpable and accessible tool.