These are the things that have stolen our innate creativity . Because creativity, in its purest form, is about none of the above. True creativity is about nothing other than personal expression and passion, and the rewards are far in excess of material. We have only to look at our children and indeed, to look back at our own childhood to see that the solitary pleasures of creative play have nothing at all to do with any of these very adult pressures, and that this creative play once came naturally and abundantly. When was the last time you simply played ? When you embraced your creativity with the same abandon and carefree passion of the child you once were? Wouldn t it feel wonderful to experience that sense of creative freedom again? And to feel it on a regular basis? But how can this happen when those adult pressures aren t going away, when indeed they are increasing with each passing year? The search for an answer to that question possessed me. I began a quest to understand the true nature of creativ...