Creativity is the ability to make the invisible visible by taking what is not to create what is. It manifests what is inside and around you by transcending the obvious, ordinary, and routine—embracing originality and making unique connections between disparate universes, past and present, to light the way into the future in new ways. Have confidence in your ideas and never give up on bringing them to fruition, leading without frontiers by seeing around the corners and fearlessly navigating into the future.

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This transformation infuses imagination, taste, style, and inherent messiness with inner desperation and persistence, along with a desire to succeed that results in having the skill and practical know-how. To be creative, you must swim courageously against the tide, searching for the authentic and new while staving off false promises of easy gratification and immediate success in a world saturated with consumer-led celebrity culture, where everyone looks the same and everything is for sale. This is the reality we live in, and it is counter-intuitive to nurturing creativity. 
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However, curiously, hardship, melancholy, and adversity often inspire creativity. People who survive alienation, oppression, poverty, and other life challenges realize that it fuels their genius when they can focus on it. This primal desire to slay the odds with extraordinary intellectual ability, mental toughness, grit, and creative productivity fuels an insatiable drive for self-actualization. This, in turn, inspires creativity. 
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When you know how to channel your passion and energy into creativity and create meaningful outcomes, your outputs will be the next generation's inputs by lighting the way to the future and passing on the baton, leaving the world a better place. If you aspire to be as influential as the things that influence you—not to imitate them but to influence others in your creative way— you can recreate the world.
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The defining question is a stalemate: should you be acceptable to others or yourself?