I think a remarkable percentage of "creativity" is simply deciding to do something, and then being persistent about it. Certainly, there's some natural genius involved in some cases - the Mozarts and all - but I've read enough biographies of successful people to know that a lot of it is just being the sort of person who is willing to strike out and take a risk.
The Carl's Junior restaurant down my block used to have a little framed story of the founder. It showed him with his first business: a little wheeled hot dog cart. (The story is online here.) Stories like this are legion. I see hot dog stands like that around here and wonder sometimes where the guy running it is going to wind up.
I think it was Edison who said "genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." We make all sorts of excuses to ourselves why we can't do what these people do. Telling ourselves that they're just "natural geniuses" or have "born creativity" might be another one.
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