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A Relaxed Look at Creativity. by shanthini. How to remain original and creative?. strong passions and base emotions, like anger, are strong creative forces do not take sides in a topic where there is an intense debate choose interesting problems (close to heart), not easy ones.
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A Relaxed Look at Creativity by shanthini
strong passions and base emotions, like anger, are strong creative forces • do not take sides in a topic where there is an intense debate • choose interesting problems (close to heart), not easy ones
recognise and overcome mental barriers • keep the mind flexible • (possessing a childlike innocence • and sense of wonder, and the • ability to ask naive questions) • knowledge is an obstacle to being creative (don’t be an expert) • don’t read the literature first
Barriers to Creativity • Concreteness • (Newton vs Einstein; • Euclid vs Riemann) • Complexity • (making point masses • out of sun & earth)
Proposal for research grant: investigator : A. Einstein occupation: Clerk, Swiss patent office aim: To study the nature of space and time methodology: Conduct thought experiments in armchair, supported by abstract maths duration: 01 lifetime by Craig Loche
Work Habits • Boredom and Inactivity • Thinking (taking long walks) • Don’t be routine • Be unrealistic about your • mental capacities (such as IQ)
IQ is not predictive of either productivity or innovation Simonton, D.K. 1988 Scientific Genius Cambridge University Press, NY
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a better measurethan IQ Is it?
Wherever you can, measure or count. Francis Galton 1855 The Art of Travel
If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance.