I think you are mis-assessing the value of a checklist for creative work. I think medicine involves a considerable amount of creative problem solving for example. And yet the use of checklists to manage basic techniques has an enormous positive impact on patient outcomes.<p>More fundamentally, not every aspect of a task or project requires creativity or needs to be reinvented each time. To the extent that there are good practices it speeds you up to encode them in a checklist so you can free your mind to focus on the creative aspects.