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A Relaxed Look at Creativity

Explore the essence of creativity through the lens of passion and emotion. This guide emphasizes the importance of remaining original by tackling personally meaningful problems and overcoming mental barriers. Embrace flexibility of mind with a childlike sense of wonder and question established norms. Recognize that expertise can stifle creativity; therefore, resist the urge to over-read the literature before diving into creative endeavors. Learn to harness boredom and inactivity as powerful tools to stimulate innovative thinking.

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A Relaxed Look at Creativity

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  1. A Relaxed Look at Creativity by shanthini

  2. How to remain original and creative?

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Barriers to Creativity • Concreteness • (Newton vs Einstein; • Euclid vs Riemann) • Complexity • (making point masses • out of sun & earth)

  6. 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

  7. Work Habits • Boredom and Inactivity • Thinking (taking long walks) • Don’t be routine • Be unrealistic about your • mental capacities (such as IQ)

  8. IQ is not predictive of either productivity or innovation Simonton, D.K. 1988 Scientific Genius Cambridge University Press, NY

  9. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a better measurethan IQ Is it?

  10. Wherever you can, measure or count. Francis Galton 1855 The Art of Travel

  11. If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance.

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