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Easy to read and universally accessible, Creativity: Revealing the Truth about Human Nature clarifies the nature of creativity: 

• Its naturalness — inherent, universal, and the defining human attribute. 
• Its primacy among the forces that shape human life. 
• Ultimately, its fundamental implication in the human condition and the planetary state of affairs. 

Analysis and synthesis of the insights that are brought together in Creativity: Revealing the Truth about Human Nature uncover five things everyone is well served to know about creativity, if they want their lives to be truly meaningful and genuinely successful. 

In summary, this is the understanding of creativity as:

1. Natural — our species character; the most fundamental aspect of the human; the one quality that defines humans and differentiates us from all other beings.
   
   
2. Inviolable.
   
   
3. Predominant life force; most powerful desire in human life.
   
   
4. Universal, but unique.
   
   
5. Life's imperative.
   

These core attributes of creativity are briefly elaborated and illustrated with pertinent insights gleaned from Creativity: Revealing the Truth about Human Nature: 

Synopsis:

• Our true nature as humans: Homo Creativus.
• Our species character — as we really are, deep down. 
• An attribute inherent in human nature.
• The impulse toward full development and actualization of our humanness.
• The defining quality that makes us human. 
• The one characteristic that distinguishes humans from all other beings or species. 

Illustrative Insights:

• "the principal quality of being human."
• "that which sets humans apart from other creatures."
• "that which is authentically you."
• "the inner nature of man — a quality that is innate in each individual."  
• "the very thing that defines who and what you are."
• Several hundreds more.

Synopsis: 

• A quality inherent in every human being by virtue of natural law; a fundamental principle of life which is supreme and universal, and which therefore cannot be set aside, abolished, or denied without serious adverse consequences. 
• A right that is not contingent upon age, gender, birth, economic or social circumstance, belief, custom, or culture.

Illustrative Insights: 

• "a fact of nature which cannot be abolished." 
• "our ultimate human right."
• "the divine, eternal, and changeless you."
• "the intrinsic value and destiny of everyone."
• "your ultimate freedom as a human being."
• Several hundreds more. 

Synopsis: 

• The primary force that shapes our lives and drives our behavior. 
• The supreme desire/impulse that drives our actions — whether we know it or not — and that gives each of us reason for living. 
• The goal, purpose, or value for which one is willing to forego everything and anything else.

Illustrative Insights: 

• "the dominant necessity of human nature." 
• "inner urge — the motive energy that impels all our actions."
• "the single most powerful force shaping our lives."  
• "the strongest of our value drives, the one drive which ultimately shapes all the rest."
• "what ultimately human life is all about."  
• Several hundreds more. 

Synopsis: 

• Who you are at the core. 
• The human tendency or predisposition to perceive, behave, act, or respond in one's unique way. 
• What makes me, me; and makes you, you.

Illustrative Insights: 

• "an inner compass that gives our lives meaning and structure."
• "man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities."
• "the invisible conductor of the orchestra of life." 
• "the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of our life." 
• "what makes us act as we do."
• Several hundreds more.

Synopsis:

• That personal — inner — urge that persistently and irresistibly clamors for fulfillment; and that will not stop its clamor until it is realized.
• Awareness, development, and meaningful engagement of one's natural abilities as the very essence of life and living — what it really means to be human!  
• Actualization of one’s potentialities as the grounds of a well-lived life, and of genuine success. 

Illustrative Insights: 

• "inner compulsion ... something which unless you do it, you don't really feel you are living."
• "something encoded in your [genes] that you must do, something that is your basic reason for being on the planet."
• "the images in us that yearn to be born ... the life-force within every individual that is constantly pressing to be developed and expressed."
• "the nagging hunger for meaning and fulfillment."
• "the passion that burns inside you and the issues of the world that animate you."
• "the uniqueness within you that calls to be lived." 
• Several hundreds more. 

Synopsis:

• Inadequate opportunity for most people to realize their creative potential as the root of the global epidemic of meaninglessness and the resultant social and psychological problems that are ruining the lives of countless millions of people around the world, traumatizing families and national societies, and seriously impoverishing modern civilization.  

Illustrative Insights:

• "an imagination which must be used and enjoyed in order for man to experience complete fulfillment of life."
• "categorical desires that give us reasons for living."
• "higher purpose — a yearning for something greater than money and material possessions."
• "something for the sake of which to live and even to die."
• "something inside me which will not permit me to accept the conclusion that life has no meaning."
• "the law of one's own being. Follow it, and it means fulfillment. Ignore it, and it means disaster."
• Several hundreds more.