Creativity as a Trainable Skill Creativity is not a mystical gift bestowed randomly on fortunate individuals but rather a trainable cognitive process that can be understood through neuroscience and deliberately enhanced through specific practices. The romantic notion that creative insights arrive only through divine inspiration or genetic talent creates learned helplessness where people assume they either possess creativity or lack it, leading them to abandon efforts to cultivate this capacity when they encounter difficulties. In reality, neuroscience reveals that creative thinking involves identifiable brain networks and cognitive processes that activate reliably under certain conditions and can be strengthened through targeted...