[lurn]

I kind of agree. At least, that's generally the way I prefer to do it. But I find I'm most creative when I'm working with other people, as long as I like working with them. They just always have ideas, and things to add to my own ideas, that I could never reach on my own.

John Cleese has a great video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g

[dredmorbius]

Cleese's talks on this are good, personal faves, and have useful advice. But they're also oriented to a specific activity: developing comedic scripts. I'd be somewhat cautious in overgeneralising.

Again, not that there aren't useful concepts, and his anti-creativity measures strike me as valid.