The skill to develop right now
Creativity is intelligence having fun,” said Albert Einstein. Coming from one of the biggest brains of our time and someone who was also musical, that statement is more credible than it is ambiguous. When we consider creativity, we immediately draw parallels to artists and muses who inspire art and artistic forms. But creativity is beyond putting paint to canvas, bow to violin or, in the modern context, stylus to tablet.
It’s the ability to think beyond basics, to connect the dots and fearlessly explore perspectives.
“I see it as one’s propensity to bend the rules,” says Khai Lin Sng, co-founder and CFO of private technology platform Fundnel, which helps build infrastructure for next-generation capital markets to increase access and liquidity for entrepreneurs and investors. “To me, creativity isn’t about novelty or having that eureka moment. It’s less about outcomes, and more about the ability to break systems down and rethink them from the ground up.”
It may sound like a lofty concept, but it’s a fact that human beings have a built-in
