Creativity and Consciousness

Second nature or doing things on autopilot tends to apply to activities that become rather straightforward to do, and which we are not attempting to improve. Having widgets, knitting, driving a car or riding a bike along a familiar road is like this. Those things can often be largely automated by our own minds and bodies. Creativity may still be going on, but it is of an unconscious kind. It frees us up to put most of our creativity into paying attention to our other conscious thoughts.