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Old Age and Creativity

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Re: Old Age and Creativity

#51

Like many of these types of sweeping inferences, I suspect that the devil is in the details. Namely, what , exactly, is being measured? Everybody changes, as we age. I'm almost 60, and, as I look back on my yute (I live in New York, so I have to use the correct lingo), I am amazed at what an addlepated, compulsive, reactive, emotion-driven, knucklehead I was. When I think about what I considered "earth-shatteringly i…

Same. It took a long time for me to get still enough to really do anything.

Re: Old Age and Creativity

#52

Like many of these types of sweeping inferences, I suspect that the devil is in the details. Namely, what , exactly, is being measured? Everybody changes, as we age. I'm almost 60, and, as I look back on my yute (I live in New York, so I have to use the correct lingo), I am amazed at what an addlepated, compulsive, reactive, emotion-driven, knucklehead I was. When I think about what I considered "earth-shatteringly i…

Ditto about compulsive etc. It's easy to be creative when playing the obsessive insect down in the project-pit. But now I know better.

Re: Old Age and Creativity

#54
I liked the article, and I hope to be more like an artist: I am soon turning 71 and retired from what I promised myself will be my last job last week (as a deep learning engineer, which is what I have been doing for about 7 years).

I am now referring to myself as a ‘gentleman scientist’ and I am most interested in Hybrid AI so that will be my non-paid vocation. I am in the process of switching my personal tech stack from Common Lisp to Haskell with hasktorch, etc. - a process that I expect will take 2 or 3 months.

BTW, getting old is not so bad, I recommend it.

Re: Old Age and Creativity

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post #51

Like many of these types of sweeping inferences, I suspect that the devil is in the details. Namely, what , exactly, is being measured? Everybody changes, as we age. I'm almost 60, and, as I look back on my yute (I live in New York, so I have to use the correct lingo), I am amazed at what an addlepated, compulsive, reactive, emotion-driven, knucklehead I was. When I think about what I considered "earth-shatteringly i…

Same. It took a long time for me to get still enough to really do anything.

> ...get still enough...

Oh man, this is so important! I only recently learned the value of *being still enough*. And, I'm going through a phase of my life now (a couple of years shy of my mid-century mark) where I'm learning *how* to get to a good state of stillness in order to be more creatrive - and be more productive with that creativity.

Re: Old Age and Creativity

#56

Like many of these types of sweeping inferences, I suspect that the devil is in the details. Namely, what , exactly, is being measured? Everybody changes, as we age. I'm almost 60, and, as I look back on my yute (I live in New York, so I have to use the correct lingo), I am amazed at what an addlepated, compulsive, reactive, emotion-driven, knucklehead I was. When I think about what I considered "earth-shatteringly i…

A beautiful comment that resonated with my own personal, err, “diarrhea of the mouth”. Still a goof and a ‘yute, yet trying to stay slow, present and grateful for the stages of my life. Even the wince-worthy ones.

Favourited & thank you.

Re: Old Age and Creativity

#58

I don't think it's fair to compare artists (painters) to poets and writers. Old famous painters can get away with anything. Deser says older artists 'aren't as restrained by convention;' I take that to mean there is less intellectual rigor in older works (that is older works of senile artists are more akin to finger painting), which art dealers have a financial interest in promoting as works of advanced genius, easie…

Finger painting? Have you looked at the paintings of older masters? It's more like they have finally mastered their art and can now focus on the essence of it.
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