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Thinking about Thought and Creativity

Creativity is one of those things that we don't really have a good framework for understanding.  Is it a unique perspective in looking at different things that arises due to the difference in the affirmative deleuzian sense of your experiences from the moment you were born?  Is it an active process that requires effort?  Is it a natural outcome of whatever comes from being in the flow state, a creative state of being? These are things I have been thinking about recently.   Thought can be Trained.  I came upon this line of thought (ironically) when I was analyzing the process of how one of my friends thought about certain math problems. They are the type of person who most people consider a 'genius' but as I analyzed their thinking(while we were solving math problems together), I realised that there is not that much difference in the movements of our thought.  Their thought was more analytical or careful in a sense at some places, examining the assumptions and the logical va