The notion of creative work may be problematic and difficult to conceptualize, but this should not deter us from treating creativity as a key measure
of human development and labour. Gauss’s teacher praised him for discovering a formula for the total of all the numbers from 1 to 100 rather than
dutifully adding them up one by one; that is the kind of teacher we would
all want, for we all wish our jobs would let us be as creative as an artist or
a mathematician. Our respect and admiration for highly creative individuals
hints at our desire to release our inner creativity and be innovative in our
work, no matter what that work may be