[keiferski]

“Creative” really just means “ideas unlike everyone else’s ideas.”

Ergo, if you have the same inputs as everyone else, you’ll most likely have the same outputs too.

The solution? Change your inputs. The three people you mentioned are all very much in the same milieu of thought, which one might call “technology-adjacent rationalist.” They all basically have the same worldview, when it comes down to brass tacks.

My suggestion is to start reading things by people without this worldview. Fashion designers, Islamic philosophers, voodoo priests, Deleuzian cyberneticists. Anyone that is outside of your normal range of input. Especially people from the distant past, as most pop science/etc. books today all have the same basic worldview, which historical writers don’t have.

You will make connections between the things you know and the new things. This ability to make connections is fundamentally what creativity is all about.

[mapster]

You may have the same inputs but think in a creative way - for instance: start by taking two dissimilar things and explore the possibilities, real and metaphorically.