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always asking questions; always discovering problems where others find satisfactory answers; completely comfortable in fluid situations where others sense danger; capable of making autonomous and independent judgements (even independent from parents, teachers, and society; and one that rejects everything that is codified, preferring to reshape objects and concepts without allowing itself to be hindered and inhibited

“Creativity" is synonymous with "divergent thinking," that is, thinking that is capable of continuously breaking the patterns of experience. A "creative" mind is one that is always on the move;

Similarly, a word, thrown by chance into the mind, produces waves on the surface and in the depths. It provokes an infinite series of chain reactions, and as it falls, it evokes sounds and images, analogies and recollections, meanings and dreams in a movement that touches upon experience and memory, the imagination and the unconscious.