Creativity is the
ability to come up with ways of doing things that satisfy multiple
conflicting goals. For example, the
poet must express his
ideas without
violating his
aesthetic goals (for example, being too
direct, too
obvious, too
crude, or too
dull). This is very difficult and requires complex
problem solving skills. Indeed, creativity is the
superlative of problem solving.
Like everything else, it can be learned and taught, but this is not simple. And with all learning, it is more a matter of acquiring the ability to look at a problem in a different way rather than memorization of fact.