Creative Insights

For centuries, curiosity was feared, condemned, and treated as a threat to order. From Eve to Galileo, from Aristotle to the Renaissance, this brief history traces how curiosity moved from sin to virtue. Today it’s praised only in narrow forms, but for creative minds, wide curiosity remains essential: the endless fuel that expands ideas and keeps imagination alive.

War flattens more than cities.
It crushes the everyday creativity people need to adapt, imagine, and rebuild their lives—especially children. In this Sunday Blooming Reading, Blithe Ernst reflects on how war silences imagination, reduces life to survival, and replaces curiosity with vigilance.
Not all creativity thrives in crisis.
Some of it vanishes quietly, and forever.
What happens to a world that forgets how to play?

Improvisation is brilliant—when it’s the last resort. In this Sunday Blooming Reading, Blithe Ernst unpacks the myth of improvisation as a creative method. While being able to improvise is a gift, relying on it as your only tool is reckless. True creativity is not about waiting for inspiration to strike, but about training, weaving, building. Improvisation can save the day—but it should never be the plan.

What happens when you reach for the “wrong” tool, wear the “wrong” thing, or say the “wrong” words? You open doors. In this Sunday Blooming Reading, Blithe Ernst explores the power of the inadequate as a creative disruptor. It doesn’t guarantee brilliance, but it pulls us off the beaten path—and into the unknown, where originality hides. Adequacy maintains. Inadequacy invites novelty. And novelty is half of creativity.

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.