ABSTRACT
This chapter asks, What is creativity? as a response to a conversation with Anna Abraham, Director of the Torrance Centre of Creativity and Talent Development at the College of Education at the University of Georgia. Anna discusses her own creative journey, including early memories of being creative and her perspective as an academic and researcher working on the boundary between neuroscience and psychology to investigate both the nature of creativity and how her findings can be applied to new knowledge on how we think. Anna’s words inspire a study of the origins of creativity – in terms of what we know – and how these origins are dictated by men. The author reflects on their own definition and argues that whilst historically, other writers and artists from Plato onwards have offered us definitions and explanations of creativity, there is no one answer to the question, nor is there a single approach that can support creativity because it is enmeshed in our autobiographical experiences and sense of self. The reader is invited to reflect on their own definition and memories of creativity to ground them in the book and to also value their creative self.
