Creativity Is a Process, Not an Event!

In the year 1666, one of the most famous scientists in history was rambling through a garden when he was struck with a flash of creative brilliance that would transform the world.

While standing under the shade of an apple tree, Isaac Newton saw an apple fall to the ground. Newton wondered that “Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground,” “Why should it not go sideways, or upwards, why just constantly to the centre of earth? The reason is that the earth sweeps it. There must be a sweeping power in matter.”
And thus, the concept of gravity was studied.
The story of the falling apple has become one of the lasting and iconic examples of one of this creative moment. It is a symbol of inspired genius that fills your brain during those “eureka moments” when creative conditions are just correct.
What most people forget is that Newton worked on his ideas about gravity for nearly aboug twenty years until; he published his innovating book, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. The falling apple was merely the beginning of this tradition of thought that continued for decades.
Newton isn't the only one scientist to wrestle with a great idea for years. Creative thinking is a process for all of us to understand.
The list of mistakes that you can never recover is very short. I think most of us realize this on some or other level. We know that our lives will not be destroyed if that book we write doesn't sell or if we get converted down by a potential date or if we forget someone's name when we introduce them. It's not necessarily what comes after the event that bothers us. It is the possibility of looking stupid, or dealing with embarrassment along the way that prevents us from getting started at all.

By: Saksham Gupta
Content: https://jamesclear.com/creative-thinking