Creativity Post
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Creativity Post publishes articles on creativity, genius, intelligence, and the psychology of thinking, written by various contributors.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for pieces on how geniuses like Einstein and Feynman thought, and one on gender bias in an emotion-reading test.
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- 1How Geniuses Think3 people · 261 points · first shared 2012 · 94 comments on HN
- 2What Do We Know About Human Intelligence?1 people · 30 points · first shared 2014 · 2 comments on HN
- 3The Complexity of Greatness: Beyond Talent or Practice1 people · 23 points · first shared 2013 · 6 comments on HN
- 4It’s The Age of Big Data: That’s Why Math Counts1 people · 10 points · first shared 2012 · 3 comments on HN
- 5Time to Overcome Our Fears and Kill Subscription Journals1 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 6How Hierarchy Kills Creativity1 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 7Debunking the Mozart Myth1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 8We Have The Grammar Police. Why Not The Math Police?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · 2 comments on HN
- 9How Americans became helpless1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 10Your Brain Isn’t Wired for Consistency1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 11The Optimistic Directive (Neal Stephenson seeks optimistic science fiction)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12Must One Risk Madness to Achieve Genius?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 13Things Top Practicers Do Differently1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 14Dopamine Not About Pleasure (Anymore)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 1518 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
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personlurking · 2012-07-21
There was an article on HN about genius and if it could be replicated and one point was to just look at a problem in a way you normally wouldn't. Well, that's kind of hard since I'm me and I look at things how I look at them. While I'm great at connecting unrelated ideas, it seems I'm not exactly great at problem-hacking. http://www.creativitypost.com/create/how_geniuses_think
While not exactly as concrete of a plan, there's the Anthony Robbins idea of living with expectancy (ie, expect the next page you turn, door you open, person you find yourself beside to potentially "open the flood gates"). http://i.imgur.com/VE1Mg.png I've been trying this the last few weeks and while it feels good to think about, I'm finding so far that it doesn't work (for me). Maybe I rationally don't expect 'expectancy' to work...
mkl · 2023-06-21
One of them was Albert Einstein: "The words of the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought." -- https://www.creativitypost.com/article/aping_einstein#:~:text=The%20wo…
Your comment seems like a non sequitur.
eihli · 2021-05-11
https://www.creativitypost.com/article/spinning_plates_and_the_serious…
"Serious play means you value play as a tool for fostering creative thinking."
This could be the seed, test-bed, and proof-of-concept for a set of libraries that would be useful for speech to text, autocomplete, natural language processing, etc...
cryptonode · 2018-03-25
Sounds very similair to Dali's process.
Where he would meditate holding a kitchen utensil on top of a pan.
And when he would fall asleep it would fall making a sound and wake him up with i inspration for his next painting.
http://www.creativitypost.com/authors/profile/33/mmichalko
goialoq · 2017-11-04
That facial-emotional recognition was a famous case of stereotype bias:
http://www.creativitypost.com/psychology/gender_bias_in_the_reading_th…
vmyy99 · 2012-05-24
Thanks for the post. I disagree with Kickstarter approach - "You have to learn how to fail in order to succeed" - http://www.creativitypost.com/psychology/famous_failures
plainOldText · 2012-05-06
This "accident" reminds me of what I read a week ago in the article "How geniuses think".
And it was this: "GENIUSES PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR CHANCE. Whenever we attempt to do something and fail, we end up doing something else." So when you're up to something interesting drop everything else and study it. It might pay off.
Link article (http://www.creativitypost.com/create/how_geniuses_think)