Creativity :: Is it learnt ??

This is a controversial topic! There can be two different schools of thought regarding this. But I believe (after a decent amount of research on the internet and personal belief & realization) that creativity is mainly learnt.We are not born with it.It is our ability to learn that gives the power of creativity.Creativity stems from the ability to learn from what is around us, accumulate those learnings, interpret them and apply them in some different context.I agree that creativity does come from inside BUT you have to draw on the experiences you have learnt from the world to be able to do so.No individual is instantly creative.Every intelligent agent operates on some input.We don't realize that our brain also receives input(may be involuntarily) through our eyes and ears.

Researchers in this area, Seltzer and Bentley, in their work "The Creative Age", identify four qualities that creative learners must have :

• The ability to identify new problems and define them.
• The ability to transfer knowledge gained in one context to another in order to solve a problem.
• A belief in learning as an incremental process, in which repeated attempts will eventually lead to success.
• And the capacity to focus attention in the pursuit of a goal.