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Ask HN: Did you become more creative as you aged?
And if so, maybe you like your life better now for that reason?
- LinuxBender 3y agoDid you become more creative as you aged? Yes and no. I used to be unhealthy. I became more creative when I started eating better and exercising. My theory is that getting healthier made my brain healthier. I can think faster and solve more complicated problems faster and in more creative ways than I could a decade ago. So in that regard I suppose age or time spent eating healthier was a factor.
- taubek 3y agoI've discovered new interests with time and I started worrying what others think about. This has lead to me being more creative.
- ofalkaed 3y agoI would say yes. Youth was just dive in and see what happens, more action and reaction than creativity. Now I am more deliberate, I form an idea and execute it, adapt and change as things progress, I would say this is far more a an act of creativity than anything I did 20 years ago. I would not say it is better or worse, at times I do miss the exuberance of youth but the ignorance required for that is not missed.
- DamonHD 3y agoI don't think so. I've always had lots of ideas, over decades, and I get to work on lots of them, in different ways.
- rikroots 3y agoMy raw creativity has stayed (subjective measurement warning) relatively stable over the past 4 decades. My fear of failure and ridicule has plummeted over the same timescale. Which means that I'm much more likely to act on, and deliver, creative ideas and inspirations now. So while my creative output has increased, so has my level of creative dead ends.