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Creativity requires both. You have a problem to solve. You first spend time understanding the problem. This process continues until you understand the problem.
by jwdunne 10y ago
Creativity requires both.
You have a problem to solve. You first spend time understanding the problem. This process continues until you understand the problem.
You then start to turn potential solutions over in your head. Lots of research and thought required - this includes inspiration. You must feed your brain. You continue this process indefinitely until...
Epiphany. A special kind of inspiration. You come across something unrelated and your mind connects it to the problem. Ideas in the shower are a typical example. The epiphany gives you a rush - out of nowhere you have the solution.
Creativity is a process where inspiration is a key part. They don't have to be exclusive.
- gcr 10y agoCreativity is applicable to scenarios in which there is no problem to solve. What about undirected creative play?
- ace_of_spades 10y agoThere is always a problem to solve and there is always process, we simply don't tend to notice it because we take it as a given (i.e., evolution/survival).
- gcr 10y agoWhat objective function is a four-year-old maximizing when pretending to be Batman with friends?
- ace_of_spades 10y agoI don't think a kid would be intentionally optimizing anything in this situation. So if you mean that creativity is not only a tool to be used conciously, I agree. I just mean I think it's difficult to argue that anything we humans do can be viewed as anything else but problem solving. So in the case of the kid there might be millions of direct reasons (e.g., boredom > want to solve that), but I think it would still be possible to map any of them to some form of problem > effect or cause > effect relationship. Nothing happens without a reason (without religious connotation).
- jwdunne 10y agoThe problem of boredom with reality.