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It was just implied that being a prodigy and being schizophrenic might not be far off each other.
Perhaps prodigy's are just the schizophrenics who are lucky enough to create value in their extreme heterodox thinking.
I believe that everybody has the capacity to be creative, and those who think they don't are impeded not by a lack of creative spark, but rather by their own inhibitions and belief that they aren't creative. Part of this is cultural; engineers are told by society that an engineer/artist schism exists and incorporate that meme into their self-image, writing off their own ability to be creative. This becomes a self-ful…
If I take the least creative people in my circles, one pattern I can spot is that they lack curiosity. Interests are narrow, shallow and for pragmatic reasons only. Not ignorant, just cognitively passive. My pseudo-scientific take on creativity is that it's connecting dots in unforeseen ways. Without curiosity though, there's little to connect.
I am one of these highly creative types, and I would say I do not understand my biology. After my PhD@MIT I joined the materials industry and filed over 120 patents in nine years. I definitely did not expect this to happen, and I have no idea where the ideas come from. I’ll just be doing my routine lab work and get showered with ideas occasionally. Edit: Someone below mentioned schizophrenia and its association, and…
Do you actually make things, or is this just rent-seeking idea squatting?
This is why I disagree fundamentally with TDD - it kills the creative spark. Whatever happened to hiring dedicated testers in order to give the creatives freedom to do what they do best? Forcing a creative dev to constrain him/herself right out of the gate is an exercise in futility made even worse when you add the requirement to be a Docker+Kubernetes+AWS gun-slinger. Whatever happened to specialisation?
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I think you're speaking of interest and motivation, without which you won't try to be creative or hit the gym. But I believe the capability still exists within you, even if you choose to ignore it. Nobody is unable to be an artist because of the way they were born.
Maybe we're all capable of being a mediocre artist but artistic genius is another thing altogether.
This is why I disagree fundamentally with TDD - it kills the creative spark. Whatever happened to hiring dedicated testers in order to give the creatives freedom to do what they do best?
How do we come up with thoughts? They just seem to appear out of nowhere. We don't decide what we will think next. Something guides what thoughts come to mind next, but we have no idea of the internal reasoning that must be going on under the surface.
I find it interesting how brain works when we try to solve a problem. It is like we have to tell the brain "Here is the problem ... now come up with a solution". And then it does somehow come up with proposed solutions. But we are unaware of how it does that. It is the sub-conscious. How do we come up with thoughts? They just seem to appear out of nowhere. We don't decide what we will think next. Something guides wha…