For a long time I thought imagination and creativity were the same thing, and I treated those terms as synonyms.
I would use one or the other interchangeably.
This was so till I found a website that confronts one word to a similar one and stablishes the differences between each one by defining them and giving examples sometimes.
To make it short, it said that imagination is the manipulation of the information that comes to us through the senses.
It allows us to create new images and sensations in our minds based on what we perceive of the world.
Creativity, on the other hand, is the ability to create something, anything.
It has a practical nature, whereas imagination is more theoretical.
It could be said that creativity is imagination applied to the real world.
Both are important and one depends on the other.
Imagination needs creativity in order to change a part of the world around one, and creativity can't exist without imagination.
Yet, creativity goes beyond imagination, because it changes the real world.
So, that is how I realised the difference between those terms.
I won't see them again as the same thing.
November 2015
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