Have you ever heard about divergent thinking?
It is an essential capacity for creativity. It is the ability to see lots of possible answers to a question.
Divergent Thinking is not the same as creativity, which would be defined as followed: the process of having original ideas that have value.
Divergent thinking is the ability not to think linear or in convergent ways. The book Breakpoint and Beyond by Georg Land and Beth Jarman describes pre-schooler as geniuses in divergent thinking.