Writing and the Creative Life: Is the key to creativity “unlearning”?

What if we are inherently creative as children, then over time lose much of that capability? That possibility is what I discovered when I stumbled across this blog post at Creativity at Work.

In 1968, George Land conducted a research study to test the creativity of 1,600 children ranging in ages from three-to-five years old who were enrolled in a Head Start program. This was the same creativity test he devised for NASA to help select innovative engineers and scientists. The assessment worked so well he decided to…