I think people often get into this trap as they get older. It's amazing what not regularly thinking for yourself, being stressed out, and having less uninterrupted time to devote to it will do for your creativity.
Or, to make my point in a different way, I think this has nothing to do with the people per se, but more their surroundings. It doesn't take youth, intelligence or wisdom to be creative. In fact, these are often obstacles.
Perhaps it's just the young don't listen to people telling them they will fail? No one seems to like real creativity (it's threatening) until it's accepted as common wisdom.
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"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." (Ayn Rand)
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." (M. Scott Peck)
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