Intelligence and Creativity

My take on intelligence and creativity!

Being able to do maths or being able to do shrewd business is not a measure of intelligence. To understand we must look at why the mind does all of these things. We must look at the mind in its totality. In the vast majority of the case, one part of the mind (the ego / the individual) deploys the other part of the mind to do math in order to achieve fame or social status etc. We usually think 'high' of such people, who use their so called intelligence to grow socially. They are constantly in struggle with others who come in their way, thereby disturbing their peace and the peace of others.

Only a mind that recognizes this, recognizes itself. A vast majority of people do not recognize this. The recognition is the way out of sickness called ego. It requires tremendous sincerity and constant attention to the contents of ones own mind. This is a measure of intelligence, not the ability to do math. Calculators can do that better.

Similarly, being able to paint like some great painter is not creativity. If the mind is playing out old past conditioned patterns, then it is repeating the same things again and again. It keeps repeating the past again and again. In its effort to repeat the past, it might create some painting. How can this be considered to be creative when the larger canvas is one of repetition. Only the mind that is free from its past, is the one can live afresh. Hence, only such a mind can be called creative!