Creativity in science comes from connecting ideas that others haven't thought to connect.
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
The intersection of mathematics and computer science is where some of the most exciting discoveries are made.