This post originally appeared on the Crew blog. There’s a letter from an 1815 issue of_General Music Journal_where Mozart describes his creative process as instantaneous: no struggle or writer’s block. The muse simply showed up and he was ready. The problem? The letter is a fraud. Much like many other myths about creativity, the mystical method described in the letter only serves to accentuate what we already mistakenly feel about creativity: that it is some sort of magical ability that certain people have and others don’t. Today, with creativity becoming a commodity that so many people trade on, it’s more…

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