Day: 17 January 2016

“…A final clue came from “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention” (1996), in which Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi acknowledges that, far from being an act of individual inspiration, what we call creativity is simply an expression of professional consensus.


“Using Vincent van Gogh as an example, the author declares that the artist’s “creativity came into being when a sufficient number of art experts felt that his paintings had something important to contribute to the domain of art.” Innovation, that is, exists only when the correctly credentialed hivemind agrees that it does.


“And “without such a response,” the author continues, “van Gogh would have remained what he was, a disturbed man who painted strange canvases.”


“What determines “creativity,” in other words, is the very faction it’s supposedly rebelling against: established expertise.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/13/ted_talks_are_lying_to_you/

“Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore”


“Taking tests increases performance – even when you fail the tests. Deliberately making mistakes during training led to better learning than being taught to prevent errors.”


“The most effective way to change your behavior over the long term is to manipulate your environment. Change your surroundings to make what you should do easy and what you shouldn’t do hard.”


“Merely deciding you’re committed for the long-term vs the short-term dramatically increases progress and improvement.”


“Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How:”


“The differences were staggering. With the same amount of practice, the long-term-commitment group outperformed the short-term-commitment group by 400 percent.”

http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2012/11/never-stop-growing-learning/

“…Which brings us back to San Francisco. If memories and functions can flow seamlessly across devices, people, and artefacts, then why can’t we consider an entire city to be a kind of genius? Like the brain, it is using stored information and solving problems. Chief among these is how people can stay alive, and even flourish, under high geographic density. This is a considerable challenge, and one that the city itself solves—in fact, the larger the city, the better it seems to solve its own problems. ”


“…Perhaps increasing the number of technologies, people, and level of communication in a city benefits intelligence in the same way that a larger number of neurons makes possible the great intelligence of human beings.”


“If people are to cities as neurons are to brains, and cities (unlike brains) do not have any known limit to their size, then gigantic cities of the future might produce innovations on a scale that wouldn’t be possible for the cities of today. Faced with pollution, disease, and scarcity, should we be looking to creative environments rather than to individual innovators? Where will we turn to find solutions to the pressing problems of the 21st century? ”


— Jim Davies is an associate professor at the Institute of Cognitive Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, where he is director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory

http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/san-francisco-is-smarter-than-you-are

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