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> Would you test Frank Gehry on the basics of architecture? Or have Frida Kahlo count her brushstrokes or plan her day hour by hour? Not sure if it's relevant?
by yongjik 6y ago
> Would you test Frank Gehry on the basics of architecture? Or have Frida Kahlo count her brushstrokes or plan her day hour by hour?
Not sure if it's relevant? Google has hired Guido van Rossum and James Gosling. I'd imagine Google didn't ask them to "reverse a binary tree", whatever that means.
I.e., if you are Frank Gehry or Frida Kahlo, you don't need to go through hoops. (If you're reading this, you are probably not Frida Kahlo.)
- deanak 6y ago> If you're reading this, you are probably not Frida Kahlo. If someone is aspiring to be her, you just helped crush that dream a little bit more. And for what?
- Centigonal 6y ago"you are probably not Frida Kahlo" is not the same as "you will never be Frida Kahlo." It's just a fact that most people are not one of the very best in their field: 50% of people can't be in the top 1%. That's not to say people shouldn't try - after all, many of the "very best" tried very hard to get where they are.
- deanak 6y agoWhy are you assuming that everyone has the same metric for being the "top"? There are millions of artists out there, creating from the world around them something unique to their time and place. Your base assumption appears to be that a bell curve can be applied to human creativity. Ask yourself who told you this and why.