I continually hear from people that they can't be…
I continually hear from people that they can't be creative. That creativity is a trait that you are born with. The creativity is not something that you are born with, but rather something that is within all of us. Creativity means taking an object or a situation that you are looking at and reframing that object or looking at the object from a different angle than everybody else is looking at it. Going back to one of our first principles, there is nothing new under the sun. Using that logic, creativity does not exist. But yet there are so many new things that are created everyday by just taking the same things and making them you just by creating differences. If you have four people looking at an object from four sides, each one may be seeing a completely different view. and may be creative in solutions.
— from The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection)
In the book
You identify the one trait you want to change, set small goals, act the part of the person who already has it, write the actions down like a to-do list, and track your progress in a log. Even the things we treat as fixed gifts are not as fixed as we think: willpower is not an inborn trait you either have or lack, and creativity is not something a lucky few are born with but a capacity that lives inside all of us, waiting to be exercised. Even the readiness itself can be cultivated: it is not that some people have willpower and others simply don't — it is that some people are ready to change and others are not yet. — The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection)