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Perhaps prodigy's are just the schizophrenics who are lucky enough to create value in their extreme heterodox thinking.
In some really basic way sure, but schizophrenia also causes definite excesses and deficiencies. They tend to be messy and bad at self care, they can see and hear things that aren't there, are subject to delusions, and can lack a normal affect
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…
Cannot draw 3D with perspective? Use isometric-ish projection with graded axes.
Cannot do music? Learn music theory, some scales and so on.Maybe an easier instrument.
Of course it will not replace a person with natural talents, but it can help to overcome those beliefs.
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…
It also quite depends on environment. When you try to think about something, the observer may think that you are just being lazy and doing nothing. I can't count how many times I've been told by parents or other people that used to be close that I should do some work rather than just sit and stare at the wall. And I would have some really great ideas of how to make something or how to solve something. Then those peop…
awesome-ideation-tools in re: neuroimaging https://github.com/zazaalaza/awesome-ideation-tools
/? creativity forgetting rate and instability in the brain: https://www.google.com/search?q=creativity+forgetting+rate+a...
Catastrophic interference is proposed as one cause of maybe pathological forgetting in the brain. This forgetting in the brain may be strongly linked with creativity. Are there links to hippocampal neurogenesis?
Catastrophic interference > Proposed solutions > Orthogonality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic_interference :
> Input vectors are said to be orthogonal to each other if the pairwise product of their elements across the two vectors sum to zero. For example, the patterns [0,0,1,0] and [0,1,0,0] are said to be orthogonal because (0×0 + 0×1 + 1×0 + 0×0) = 0. One of the techniques which can create orthogonal representations at the hidden layers involves bipolar feature coding (i.e., coding using -1 and 1 rather than 0 and 1). [10] Orthogonal patterns tend to produce less interference with each other. However, not all learning problems can be represented using these types of vectors and some studies report that the degree of interference is still problematic with orthogonal vectors. [2]
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…
Like the TarSnap guy, first you have to be free. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31981486
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"I believe that everybody has the capacity to be creative" Maybe, but I am almost certain that this capacity is highly unequal. Some people are like walking geysers of inspiration and you cannot suppress them culturally anymore than you can prevent the July sun from baking the sand. Others are decidedly low-voltage even when it comes to private creativity (such as decorating your own home). It is the same with muscle…
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.
I am creative. If you are not, it is because you lack the willpower.
Funnily enough, it is the reverse expectation that is often placed. "If you can't concentrate, it's because you lack the willpower" etc.
I lived under this burden that something was wrong with me my whole life; that I had some character flaw that made me unsuccessful at things that other people find easy.
And then I was diagnosed with ADD. And then I was prescribed drugs. And then I discovered what it was like to be a normal human being. It turns out that it took just 35 milligrams of a single substance to allow me to focus just like other human beings can, and get through a normal work day like other human beings can.
The point of my story is this: people are wired differently. It is not a character flaw that someone doesn't have an attribute that you should think they have. It is not a lack of willpower or focus.
I have a highly creative brain. It is clear that there is something that causes my brain to make connections faster than most others. And, that thing also helps me make new and random connections in a way that most others will never experience.
This thing, this creative spark, is also my ADD. My brain is constantly taking me on weird and wonderful journeys. I don't choose it, it just happens. And the same thing in reverse. I don't choose to lose focus. It just happens. My brain is constantly making noise and interrupting me. It just happens.
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?
Very true. Though less “prestigious”, the most fun I ever had was actually working as an SDET in the beginning of my career at Microsoft in Azure. I would spend hours dreaming up corner cases on how to break dev code in a distributed systems setting and came up with (for that time) quite a few unique frameworks that helped catch bugs that would’ve otherwise slipped through the usual unit, functional and smoke test ar…
Azure customers like me all suspected this, it's funny to see it confirmed.
The lack of testing is glaringly obvious. I can "break" Azure by deploying trivial, toy architectures. I can't imagine what customers go through if they actually try to scale up to something bigger or more complex.
How does one define creativity? How do you measure it?