RATIONALIZE

Creativity is just one of the ways in which rationalizing stifles the outlet.  In all other aspects of our lives, rationalization is the way we construct stories about ourselves that are not true.  Rationalization is the way we get and stay stuck.

"The intellect is a great danger to creativity … because you begin to rationalize and make up reasons for things, instead of staying with your own basic truth — who you are, what you are, what you want to be."     ~ Ray Bradbury