tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post2064083873359932595..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: 10 Misconceptions about CreativitySabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-71348472032407200502014-03-24T00:03:24.370-04:002014-03-24T00:03:24.370-04:00I remember one study asked people at an organizati...I remember one study asked people at an organization to identify other people whom they considered most creative. Then, they interviewed those people to find their secret. Interestingly, those people regarded their own approaches to problem solving as the most conventional.<br /><br />I always think of the old aphorism: You don't have to be different to be good. Being good is different enough.Kaleberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283840743310507878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-47846355187352568332014-03-17T14:51:45.924-04:002014-03-17T14:51:45.924-04:00Ha, Ha, Ha, Xkcd needs to learn structured design ...Ha, Ha, Ha, Xkcd needs to learn structured design techniques! <br /><br />When people tell someone to "think outside the box" what they're really saying is to properly define the boundaries of the problem at hand. In my own experience, creativity is the easy part, figuring out how to practically realize your creative idea within the constraints at hand often involves more creative PonderSeekDiscoverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00913503952284529871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-43752038988477548362014-03-15T12:32:27.666-04:002014-03-15T12:32:27.666-04:00You are a virtuoso. To help readers understand - ...You are a virtuoso. To help readers understand - an analogy to music is made.<br /><br />Music virtuosos recognize all pieces of music and know the room for improvement for all masterpieces always exists.<br /><br />Gravity is no different.<br />Keep playing.<br />Grants aside.hushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16176588791118304829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-59273036540928512762014-03-13T05:43:17.782-04:002014-03-13T05:43:17.782-04:0011. Drugs enhance creativity.11. Drugs enhance creativity.Phillip Helbighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067585245603436809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-5215725972668987012014-03-11T02:31:42.998-04:002014-03-11T02:31:42.998-04:00An interesting aspect of this is that most scienti...An interesting aspect of this is that most scientists are very good people, very smart, logical, big well developed left brains who tend to have underdeveloped intuitive brains, <br />which undermines their creativity. Many have no clue about their biases and think they are "logical". Recent neurological science results<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biasesZephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-7817790188166761732014-03-05T21:03:54.023-05:002014-03-05T21:03:54.023-05:00This topic seems especially difficult for me to ma...This topic seems especially difficult for me to make creative commentary on. <br />It puts my world view on pause or as reflection on a myth stops it dead. It turns out a deeply important issue.<br />The story begins let the kids run but sloe them down to learn deep observation. Then not reward just copy cat behavior. The middle becomes confused and too trite to share. But the ending sums it all L. Edgar Ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00525169618204198073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-83991753264653437952014-03-05T18:03:21.702-05:002014-03-05T18:03:21.702-05:00Creativity is often similar to..
http://en.wikipe...Creativity is often similar to..<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io0235gp7qkTheophanes Raptishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01269614280130174555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-54972249069296958852014-03-05T04:23:47.687-05:002014-03-05T04:23:47.687-05:00JimV,
Yes, that counts to the risk-factor. You...JimV,<br /><br />Yes, that counts to the risk-factor. You're likely to just reproduce other people's mistakes. That risk increases substantially if these mistakes are not on record (which is one of the reasons why I think negative results should be published). Best,<br /><br />B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-8063512443169047202014-03-05T04:20:58.939-05:002014-03-05T04:20:58.939-05:00Michael,
Yes, as I wrote, the divergent thinking ...Michael,<br /><br />Yes, as I wrote, the divergent thinking (the 'inspiration') is part of it, but it's generally acknowledged that's not all of it. Alas, most of the 'advice' that I read is for the inspiration, not the perspiration, unless you want to count the ubiquitous advice to carry a notebook to pin down your great ideas. (There's an app for that...) My approachSabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-23789423208270490642014-03-05T04:16:55.020-05:002014-03-05T04:16:55.020-05:00Marko,
Yes, I agree with you... As I wrote in thi...Marko,<br /><br />Yes, I agree with you... As I wrote in <a href="http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2013/11/does-modern-science-discourage.html" rel="nofollow">this earlier post</a>, the idea that you can teach creativity seems in itself an oxymoron, it'll just move the 'creative' element elsewhere. Take this example with the 'alternative uses for household equipment' (and Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-53377245239425430222014-03-05T04:10:49.245-05:002014-03-05T04:10:49.245-05:00George,
My remark about children refers specifica...George,<br /><br />My remark about children refers specifically to the statement 'They ask their parents 100 questions a day'. What I mean is if they learn, many questions become redundant and the questions they are left with become increasingly more difficult to answer. I'm not saying children stop having questions. I am saying they have fewer questions that they'll ask their Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-84326252629736591042014-03-04T22:49:17.890-05:002014-03-04T22:49:17.890-05:00and much later.....?and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDc34AXWIls&feature=youtu.be&t=1h9m5s" rel="nofollow">much later</a>.....?PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-38217419820705010572014-03-04T22:46:13.668-05:002014-03-04T22:46:13.668-05:00He talks about much earlier....while I showed a la...He talks about <a href="http://youtu.be/iDc34AXWIls?t=40m" rel="nofollow">much earlier</a>....while I showed a later Q&A answer to 40:40PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-2147052856487444342014-03-04T22:35:17.387-05:002014-03-04T22:35:17.387-05:00You have to have the willingness to be puzzled?
C...You have to have <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDc34AXWIls" rel="nofollow">the willingness to be puzzled</a>?<br /><br />Chomsky lays it out there for you but in a different way. You want to leave "a gap" in your thinking, right?PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-85895243942931396222014-03-04T19:23:48.257-05:002014-03-04T19:23:48.257-05:00Tangentially related to your post, in engineering ...Tangentially related to your post, in engineering work, myself and others used to get told by upper management types to "think outside the box", and I disliked it a lot. Now, I know where the phrase comes from (the nine-dot puzzle) and it makes sense in that situation, but usually not in engineering. In engineering, I think of "the box" as containing millions of ideas handed JimVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10198704789965278981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-56908684723127097512014-03-04T15:11:12.729-05:002014-03-04T15:11:12.729-05:00Don't forget the good old Thomas A. Edison: &q...Don't forget the good old Thomas A. Edison: "Genious is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration." (and some cite et even as 1 vs. 99%)<br /><br />Creativity evolves in human work and learning, which is the work of children and teenagers in the first line. One of the worst things and the biggest waste in our time is not to provide excellent education and work at all to people. In that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-9673917827161473032014-03-04T11:36:26.555-05:002014-03-04T11:36:26.555-05:00http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~jps7/Lecture%20notes...http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~jps7/Lecture%20notes/TRIZ%2040%20Principles.pdf<br /> TRIZ, the art of inventive problem solving.<br /><br />Discovery disciplines management rewarded for enforcing process not creating product. Creativity does it the "other" way, violating Korporate Kulture. Creativity quantitates insubordination. Hewlett-Packard summarily rejected Stephen Wozniak&#Uncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-34492042667462549432014-03-04T10:58:52.639-05:002014-03-04T10:58:52.639-05:00Nah, all those creativity problems in USA will get...Nah, all those creativity problems in USA will get solved rather quickly once children get some more practice in solving the creativity tests themselves...<br /><br />It's like intelligence testing --- if you just practice by solving 3-4 different tests per day, after a month you can markedly boost your IQ score, thus making any statistician in your school/town/country more happy. :-)<br /><vmarkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660488689205445871noreply@blogger.com