A Creativity Tree

I haven't said this yet on the blog, but I should mention before I go any further that I am 24 years old and I don't know anything. Okay, I know some things but nothing substantial or original. I have always gotten good grades throughout my educational career, As and Bs my whole life (with 2 exceptions, if I remember correctly). I went to a pretty good private high school, a pretty good college, and I came away with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a 3.66 cumulative average.
My math degree is probably the biggest regret of my life. It's not that I'm not good at math, it's that a degree in math is doomed to be understood. Math is not just arithmetic, algebra or calculus. Mathematics does include all of these branches and more, much more, but Math is more about describing consistent, logical systems. A degree in Math does not make you a master of these branches, --I am ironically still embarrassingly terrible with arithmetic-- a degree in Math only says that you have climbed some of these branches. There is no one alive today that is proficient in all the branches of Math, it is simply not possible, the tree is too big. Math is a lot like a tree, and learning it is a lot like climbing. Each branch is logically connected to another, but not all of the branches touch. Navigating even one branch can be very difficult, but persistence is the real secret to moving forward. Thus, a degree in Math is really a degree that says I am persistent and I know how to navigate logically from one point to another. Math has trained me to always move cautiously and deliberately, but creativity requires the exact opposite skill.
When I look at the world, what I see is a place where things interact with other things and make things happen. That is, blank does blank to blank and make blank happen. I have a kind of x-ray vision or interaction vision. I know I'm not the only person that sees the world this way, but I don't believe that everyone sees the world this way. My boss for instance sees the world in terms of monetary value. Everything that he sees in the world is translated into what he perceives its dollar value to be. When I look outside at trees, I have an understanding of how they work and how important they to their ecosystems. They provide homes for birds, and oxygen and shade for us. But trees are not doing this because it is logical, and nor is it creative. The tree just exists and interactions developed around it naturally which can be explained in logical systems like biology and chemistry. Creativity requires more than just existing in a random way, and so even understanding nature cannot help me develop my skill.
This brings me back to my original point: I don't know anything; I'm still learning. I can arrive at answers through brute force logic, and although this is indeed a powerful skill, it is still exceedingly difficult for me to come up with good, original ideas. I can look around and follow abstract interactions and relationships, but I find it very hard to imagine outside the limits of science understanding. I hope that this blog will help me to organize my thoughts, and I hope to use it as scrap paper for new ideas, good, bad, possible and not possible. This blog can help me to develop a new kind of tree that will be unlike both the metaphorical math tree that grew out of a seed planted firmly in logic and the tree outside that grew from a seed buried in reality. This creativity tree will start in my mind and will become nourished and strengthened by understanding and logic in the hope of bearing real fruit that I can share.