Friedrich Nietzsche related creativity to a creative and a destructive drive. I propose that destructive drive or dionysian drive is malaligned with reality. Instead I propose a framework of two drives which are the 1) creative drive, and 2) exploitative drive.
The creative drive wants to create for merely the process of creation itself. This is the “lighter” of the two drives.
The exploitative drive is not bad in the laymans use of the term but instead it refers to “pressing where it hurts” as Harvey Specter from Suits would say.
Another way to look at this framework is to rebrand it as the “initiative drive” and the “purificative drive.”
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