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Creativity is often discussed as a struggle. It may even be said that if your idea does not fight some socially enforced boundary, it is not creativity. My audio book listening lately has drifted to wars of ancient Greece, where I came across the most stereotypically macho statement I ever heard. At the Battle of Thermopylae one of the three hundred Spartans was told that the Persians had so ma…