The Quote: “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have an apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”

This quote encompasses a lot of what creativity is about for me. You make something from nothingness and it instantaneously has infinite worth. The more that is created, the more worth the world has overall. When people share ideas and creations, everyone gets richer.

But day-to-day life is mostly about acquiring, not creating. And most people are more concerned with investing than inventing. Some may grow in wealth, but they remain part of a human race that is continually growing poorer in substance. It requires too much effort to fashion precious metal, so we mass-produce fool’s gold and we all tarnish.