When we hear stories about iconic leaders like Salesforce.com’s founder Marc Benioff, or widely celebrated virtuosos like Lin-Manuel Miranda for that matter, we immediately think these people must have some special gift that we normal folk are missing. As if the skies opened for a brief moment and the gods anointed the chosen few with heavenly powers. We’re led to believe that we’re either creative or we’re not, and there’s very little we can do about it.

This is what we’ve been told our whole l...