TS A student said to me yesterday that she wasn’t very “creative”, and I’m sorry I didn’t have time to offer a full response. SD I should have told her that all of us are always creative, because we can’t help it. CM It’s our very nature to be creative – to create. CM We create countless things each moment, though we are often not aware of this. CM All of us, including this young girl, are actually walking factories that are constantly producing astonishing products. SD Take our bodies. CM As my students and I are sitting in my classroom, our bodies are working at lightning speed -- taking in air, pumping blood, and remaking cells. CM This girl who thinks she’s not creative is actually housing an infinitely complex system of operations, more complicated than the most sophisticated factory in the world. CM While she sits and ponders her lack of creativity, her brain is producing astonishing miracles called thoughts at the speed of light. SD These thoughts, actually, represent the most amazing aspect of her creativity. CM The very thought that told her she was not creative was the result of an unbelievably beautiful creative process. CM In some mysterious way, her mind continually takes part in the most inventive and resourceful operation the universe has yet developed, called “thinking”. CS By saying she was not creative, she was simply revealing that she is, that she can’t help it, that she has to be, that it’s the law.