If by "creativity" we mean to do things in the most informative way, in the sense of high entropy, (creativity is thus by this assumption equivalent to the capability of producing the most information), I feel "thinking independently" is the key to creativity -- as an event independent of all other events would produce the highest amount of information, for this matter...

Quite often, "thinking independently" could lead to social rejection, as being independent means being non-related with other people's thinking, and hence with much less likelihood of being agreeable with other people's opinion. If we define (roughly) social acceptance as the property of sharing common opinions among the crowd, then we can infer that thinking independently would unlikely lead to social acceptance.

Hence creativity would unlikely lead to social acceptance.

Perhaps that's why a tolerant environment that allows different ideas and different opinions (even those you don't agree with) to coexist is also very crucial to creativity -- as otherwise intolerance would simply kill it.