What Creates A Creative Mind?

For our second assignment we were asked to view another article : 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20071644.

  The article was on the various Australian inventions for example our most dearest Wi-Fi,The infamous black box flight recorders,The commonly used hills clothes hoists,The useful cochlear implants,Dual flush toilets,Mountbatten Braillers,Super Sopper Rollers,Ultrasound,Disposable syringes and plastic banknotes.

 After reading this article I was astounded,begging the question what makes the people who invented or innovated these things so creative,was it the environment that they grew up in? or was it some other factor that influenced them to be this creative?.

 Sometimes like the invention of Wi-Fi,new inventions are created by making mistakes,sometimes like ultrasound  the manner of which it could be used was not thought of yet. 

 But more often than not sometimes ideas lay dormant in the back of our head,waiting just for the right time to pop out.These ideas could be there for months and months all together and we wouldn't know unless a situation provokes our brain to push it out giving us a eureka moment,bringing everything that we had thought of earlier together.
 What are these moments that push our ideas forward,you ask? 
     The answer is no one knows,it could be at any time and any place taking us by surprise. that is why we      have to be ready for it at all times.

 The environmental factors like society and culture play a key factor in these types of inventions,if the society is supportive of these inventions then only they come into bloom and only then would they be innovated 
upon. 

 As mentioned earlier in my post about how schools kill creativity.Schools also play a key factor,their encouragement and support is required to help give birth to creative minds.

  To answer my initial question I think that it's a combination of all these factors put together that create an   inventive,innovative and creative mind.because breaking out of boundaries that's how we do.

 I hope I have given you something to gnaw,prod and itch your brain for, because out of the box thinking,that's how we think.