1. Creativity is a Talent You’re Born With
Reality: While some people may have more natural creative tendencies, creativity is a skill that can be developed over time through practice. Believing it’s innate can discourage people from trying. But even people who don’t consider themselves “creative types” can boost their creative capacity.
2. Creative People Are Disorganized Oddballs
Reality: There are orderly and methodical creative people, and disorganized eccentric ones. Creativity presents itself in all personality types. Pigeon-holing creative people as messy or scatterbrained underestimates those with different working styles.