As part of my daily browsing I just got to ted.com "Ideas worth spreading"; and found a talk featuring Amy Tan, honestly I have never heard of her before; although the fifteen minutes talk was very insightful and compelling in a very funny way, it was entitled "Where Creativity does Hide?". The talk runs trough her life and how that transformed her and her creativity. The one idea that "rang the bell" in my head was: "How to create something out of nothing?"; I believe that's the best definition of creativity I have ever heard. That is the place where everything start rumbling in my head, and now I only can think of how to create something out of nothing, something out of nothing, something out nothing, SoN?????

For me what really drives creativity is necessity, and the cohesive medium is opportunity in form of spare time. Take Creativity C, Spare Time as st and necessity as n the following formula would describe not where the creativity hides but how big it can be.

C = n * st

Taking the above formula the greatest n or st would make C greater; thus, having a necessity or spare time are not warranty of obtaining more creativity. Therefore, to have SoN creativity is required meaning

SoN = C

therefore

SoN = n * st

Since st could is measured as Time, it would be affected by sense of time according to the Necessity n, therefore

SoN = n * t^n

In conclusion to get something out of nothing I would require both a Necessity and Time, the amount of each required to get a bigger SoN would be determined by the Necessity in the first degree and the time in second.

Having the silly-naive definition of SoN presented above I came to the conclusion that if I want to create SoN I need to get either a great necessity or tons of spare time and a small necessity. In example took this post, I can say this is SoN, the necessity to create it was significant smaller than the spare time I had to write it, as you can see the result is not brainier but its something out of nothing.

Then Where does creativity hides? For me creativity hides inside the necessity, but necessity without time will not get any creativity.