Creativity and daydreaming

What makes us more creative?

Here is an article that I read, and love the ideas presented in it!
http://www.creativitypost.com/psychology/why_daydreamers_are_more_creative

Let me summarize best ideas a bit:


Creativity (reduced latent inhibition) involves the ability to consider something as relevant even if it was previously tagged as irrelevant.


 A reduced latent inhibition allows us to treat something as novel, no matter how may times we’ve seen it before.


People with reduced latent inhibition tend to be more cretive 


intelligence and latent inhibition seem to be independent abilities 


those with a reduced latent inhibition have more confidence in their intuitions


It’s not that people with a reduced latent inhibition always treat the irrelevant as relevant; it’s just that they consider everything as potentially relevant.


 And this is conducive to creativity because sometimes the seemingly irrelevant is relevant!


The way I see it, it’s not distractibility, per se, that is the most relevant thing for creativity. Instead, I think the key is to keep your wonder and excitement for the world, being open to everything in the environment as well as your own internal stream of consciousness. I think putting things in these terms allows for more useful practical applications.
We don’t have to promote either working memory skills or imagination and daydreaming. We can promote both. And in so doing, we are promoting true creativity—creativity that is both novel and useful.