Is Creativity the birthplace of Ideas or are Ideas the soil for the seeds of Creativity?

The answer is an emphatic YES on both counts. They feed each other.

Ideaphoria could very well be the birth of both according to two separate, but equally valuable definitions of the little known word.

ideaphoria (according to Merriam Webster)

noun idea·pho·ria \(ˌ)īˌdēəˈfōrēə, ˌīdeə-\

:  capacity for creative thought or imagination

ideaphoria (according to Wiktionary)

noun idea·pho·ria \(ˌ)īˌdēəˈfōrēə, ˌīdeə-\

: an experience where one feels a constant onslaught of new ideas, creating a euphoric state of idea creation.

The first gives the subtle implication that everyone has ideaphoria at one point or another… the capacity for creative thought or imagination (and I’d agree with that). It’s what makes humans different from animals.

The latter is more literal, showing the word to be formed from “ideas” and “euphoria”, and is perhaps more evident in some of us than in others… the state of idea creation that can all but take over our lives.

While not a symbiotic relationship or even a yin and yang complementary relationship, it is indeed an interdependent one. I am not sure that one exists entirely without the other, even while they are essentially different.

What do you think?

Michele Jennae is all about connecting people with ideas, which leads to more creativity, which leads to more ideas!