Lessons learned, as a startup founder: Don’t let a lack of creativity mire you in mediocrity. Everyone has it in them, we just need to figure out how to tap into it.

In fact, creativity isn’t elusive at all. We’ve been conditioned, from a very young age, to believe that some people are born creative and others are not. That creativity is innate. Even the dictionary definition of creativity allows us to inadvertently perpetuate the myth. The first listed definition for creativity is “the quality of being creative”, which lends itself right into our conditioned belief that creativity is exclusive. The second listing is the more appropriate definition- “the ability to create”. No matter how you look at it, that defines us all, in one way or another.