I'm not sure who I heard this from, maybe Adam Grant, but "originality" and "creativity" these days are less about coming up with a brilliant, utterly unique idea and more about seeing new and different ways that things can be put together. Like we used to be able to call a yellow cab on the phone, but now we can call any car in our vicinity who wants to give us a ride with the Uber App.

I like to keep in mind that opportunity is everywhere. How can this be done better? What new advantage can technology give us to do this thing we've been doing for millennia? Always keep the wheels of your mind turning in this way and write stuff down when you think of it.

There are so many screwed up things in the world - how can they be done better? That's one way of looking at creativity and innovation. It's not an original way of looking at it of course. :-)