"I'm just not a creative person." If you've ever said that, this episode is a friendly argument with you.

We close the season's outward turn with the most generative human act of all: creation. We unpack three MindSnacks — The Twilight Mind, The Creative Alchemist, and The Spark of Imagination — and take apart the biggest myth about creativity: that it's a gift handed to artists and inventors, and the rest of us missed out. The truth runs the other way. Creativity is one of the most universally human things we do.

We get into why your best ideas ambush you in the shower or right before sleep instead of when you're forcing them, why creativity is really just connecting things that didn't seem to belong together, and why imagination isn't a retreat from reality but the force that grows reality into something new. The question was never  ...