Does Creativity Decline as You Age? — PILGRIM SOUL
3 min readSep 25, 2020
Creativity is signaled by divergent thinking, a thought process in which the mind’s typical thought process is opened in all directions allowing for a wide range of newly possible ideas. This sort of originality and efficacy is like a muscle. As children, the creative muscle is continuously flexed — imaginary friends, playing pretend, creating new languages. Children are forever expressing their…