Green is not a creative colour.
But it is the color with the most contribution to luminance.
New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'
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#102I 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…
This could be my neurological development being slightly askew, but I am not creative in the slightest. I used to think I was somewhat creative (I drew constantly as a child and into my late teens, played a lot of music, worked as a graphic designer, love building things from wood, sort of a “maker” of sorts these days), but then I realized I’m just a regurgitation machine.
I’m not sure I’ve had a remotely original or interesting idea of my own in my life.
I just suck up everything around me, rip it apart, slap it back together, and that’s my version of “creativity”.
I’ve been working at being more creative now that I’ve realized I’m not creative, and I have no idea how. I am a pattern replicating machine.
I’m a little disappointed, but also somewhat content that I can enjoy what I do nonetheless. It’s all a sort of meditation and practice in developing skills. I’m not sure I ever prided myself on being creative in the first place, so it’s not a loss I suppose.
But when you say anyone can be creative, I have no idea what you mean. I can’t figure it out. Everything I think of is something someone has done. I can trace everything back to someone else. There is nothing creative about it.
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#103One of the key indicator of creativity is how they modify their behavior after mass novelty is achieved. It's distinctively a schizoid behavior, where you shun something that becomes widely known or appreciated by "too many ppl". It's knowing esoteric facts/connections that allow neural pathways to discover unbeaten path, however its often not without risks. Many artists/actors/engineers/any line of work really remai…
This is fascinating. I relate to everything you just talked about. Both in the way that I've treated artists, by liking/appreciating them way before they were popular and dropping them once they've achieved fame, and the way that I've treated my own interests. There was a time when I achieved sudden and moderate popularity in a field, which I then blew up by deeply retreating from the spotlight. The life in the public eye can put you in a creative prison, as people expect you stick to a "brand".
After that experience, I deeply understood why Dave Chappelle left the spotlight in his prime, giving up $50m to live in Africa.
Is there anything that I could read to learn more about this?
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#104I 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…
This could be my neurological development being slightly askew, but I am not creative in the slightest. I used to think I was somewhat creative (I drew constantly as a child and into my late teens, played a lot of music, worked as a graphic designer, love building things from wood, sort of a “maker” of sorts these days), but then I realized I’m just a regurgitation machine. I’m not sure I’ve had a remotely original o…
What I find funny is that the description of your version of "creativity" is my general definition of creativity. Has anyone ever done anything completely original and unheard of before? I think to be creative at something is to have a large mental library of concepts within a certain space, and to be able to mix and match those concepts. Much like ripping ideas apart and slapping them back together as you say.
I used to think visual character design was the hardest thing ever. To just come up with something out of nowhere. that being creative like that was a very difficult thing. What I didn't usually see or look at is all the designs those people have seen and taken inspiration from before.
I think that's also why some ideas can be "ahead of their time". Someone made a connection between some concepts that many people haven't yet, and will think is too farfetched. Still, over time people can come to see value in that idea that was dismissed earlier.
Just to reiterate my main point, I think it's easy to look at what other people do and think "Wow, how original!", without ever seeing their inspiration for something. Even though they might just feel like they replicated some patterns.
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#105I 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…
This could be my neurological development being slightly askew, but I am not creative in the slightest. I used to think I was somewhat creative (I drew constantly as a child and into my late teens, played a lot of music, worked as a graphic designer, love building things from wood, sort of a “maker” of sorts these days), but then I realized I’m just a regurgitation machine. I’m not sure I’ve had a remotely original o…
You're too hard on yourself, the reality is that this is the vast majority of people. There are those few percent of people that will come up with something new, but the majority of time its a person thinking about combining A with B, and coming up with something that's just slightly new.
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#106This 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?
Wow. I have the exact opposite experience with TDD. I use TDD to set a specific goal, and to have the computer tell me almost instantly when I've reached it. Then I can unleash creativity in trying implementations, and know instantly if they've worked. Occassionally I'll get a lucky guess in that works. Such a great feeling knowing immediately that my intuition was right.
Testing obviously is essential to the final product but TDD kills creativity by stifling flow.
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#107It’s very hard for me to take results like these seriously. We don’t even have the fundamental concepts set. How does one define creativity? How do you measure it?
> How does one define creativity? How do you measure it?
Different studies might define it slight differently and test it via different tests. But to suggest that we as humans don’t have a fundamental understanding of what creativity even is quite hyperbolic.
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#108"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost
Yea, your missing the context. The entire point of the poem is that the two roads were identical and that the choice didn’t matter at all.
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#109I 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…
Yeah I agree with this, most of the people I know that aren’t creative seem to have some emotional block or belief that it’s not their role. Often if you get past that they are incredibly creative
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#110I 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…
"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…
>New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'
Ya think?
>"I believe that everybody has the capacity to be creative"
This has to be put in perspective.
Those are not the subjects they were trying to focus on in this study.
I think everybody has some kind of outstanding ability, and certain types of creativity are just one of the very rare things, it turns out.
>only some people do really have the potential to be good athletes.
This is a good example and it can still be worthwhile for each of us to improve ourselves anyway.