"Being the first to do something in an unusual way" = "Creative" (quoted from Howard Gardner, psychologist of Harvard University.)
The "Different" makes everyone to be special. For example, a famous artist Jackson Pollock, his different method of painting (Action Painting) makes him popular and people called him CREATIVE! Because he's the first to do something very unusual; He earns the NOVELTY.
Does every creation earns novelty? Not really though... If the creation is original and has certain value (accepted by majority perhaps?), it will be considered as CREATIVE & NOVEL.
How do we develop creativity? Generate new ideas or combine a few old concepts in a different way, is the key.
But how do we let our creativity to be accepted by people? Here come's the INNOVATION. Innovation is needed in order to make our ideas into practical reality.
To be able to create NOVEL ideas, we need to have basic intelligence; but to further analyze those NOVEL ideas, we need HIGHER INTELLIGENCE, that is WISDOM. Create your work INTELLIGENTLY is good, but if it is unacceptable by everyone, it is useless; Create your work INTELLIGENTLY plus WISDOM is better, you have to think of the creation, the process, and the consequences, that's make your work earn NOVELTY.
INNOVATION is to modified current objects into more practical form so that it's better and easier. The innovation process won't come into an end as "There is no the best, but only the better".
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