It's hardcore history.

I have always loved the quote from Mozart, and I think it's abbreviated.

I think it's a couple of different sentences cut out.

But the quote as put together is wonderful, and it's symbolic of something we're going

to talk about today.

And the quote is, when I am completely myself entirely alone, or during the night when

I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Whence and how these ideas come, I know not, nor can I force them end quote.

I think many of us can relate to that, at least the latter part, right?

Nor can I force them.

But if you're in a field where creativity is required for you to prosper, eventually

you start wondering about this thing, creativity.

There's other ways to put it.

You could say insight or originality or novelty.

I mean, there's multiple different ways to try to define this thing that is so wrapped

up in the condition of being human that one could easily make a case that all human

civilization is the result of creativity over millennia laid upon itself, right?

Generation by generation by generation depends on how you define creativity.

Of course, if you were going to write a book on the subject of creativity, and I don't

mean like a book about other people's creativity, I mean the concept.

What would it sound like?

Would it sound like a scientific book?

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