"Is this true? Creativity is intuitive, and then critiqued with
rationale."
I link up creativity with what's now called the "flow state",
which is linked up to intuition or "presentness" - exuding
without judgement. Doing, being, an "is" state.
It's only afterwards that we see it from an objective point of
view and critique it in the way other people might critique it.
I think for some people the flow state happens in fits and
spurts... some people, fearful of judgement, will critique
continually as they go along, going from intuitive to critiquing
moment to moment.
For me, for example when I start playing the piano, I start off
being critical until my flow state kicks it (takes about 45
minutes of playing), and then all of the sudden, sans
interruptions, I just go and go and go and go and go and go and
go. Minutes or hours could go by if I'm uninterrupted. It's an
awesome state of being.
A single slammed door or the tiniest criticism ("can you turn it
down?") is enough to entirely kill it.
