Creative Insights

Creativity doesn’t thrive in isolation—it needs impact, resistance, and response. In this Sunday Blooming Reading, Blithe Ernst explores the essential role of collision in the creative process: not just between inner desire and outer limits, but between minds. Ideas grow sharper when they bounce off others. Like a tennis match, creativity comes alive when it’s played with someone else. Lucid, collective, and always better with a rally.

Creativity has nothing to do with madness—and everything to do with sharpness, clarity, and real-world usefulness.
It’s not reserved for “geniuses” either. That old myth only served to scare people away from their own creative power.
The truth?
You’re creative because you’re alive.
No special permission needed.
Tradition, your fear is showing. Time to move on.

Is technology rewiring our minds and killing creativity? The Post-Fusion Generation lives in a constant now, shaped by algorithms and instant gratification. The Synthetic World replaces real experiences with digital ones. Are we still thinking freely—or just playing by tech’s rules?

The article explores creative biases, focusing on the modification bias—transforming existing ideas into new forms through techniques like skeletization, radicalization (from Latin radix, "root"), and mutation. It highlights the importance of mastering creative processes to overcome blocks and innovate.