People like us do things like this. It is not hard wired into any of us. If we were born in a different country, we'd have a differnt culture. All right, two more tips here. One is to seek out constraints. Constraints sound like the enemy of any creative process. But you like them. You say, art solves problems in a novel way. And problems always have constraints. Can you define constraints and how it can help us be creative? What makes something a problem? In the answers, it hasn't been solved yet. There are trade offs. The point a making is don't run away from the constraints. Identify them, label them