I wrote this text to establish a foundation for how readers might engage with the books to follow in this series. Throughout my research, I found myself in a pensive struggle over whether or not to define creativity. Although I was committed to refraining from such an action, I frequently felt compelled by academic tendencies to codify terminology or to anchor concepts within established definitive source frameworks. In resisting that urge, I discovered that creativity is far more expansive than the narrow ways it is commonly defined—something novel and carrying value within a given domain. Although that is one way to conceive creativity, this text and the remaining books in this series will continue to uncover more perspectives. This kind of expansion is consistent with historical patterns as creativity has never been a fixed construct. It is especially necessary when recognizing how deeply Western intellectual traditions have shaped the definitions most commonly used today ( Sawyer & Henriksen, 2023 ).