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Yea, when it comes to ability/creativity almost everything written seems to be about how the author would prefer reality to be rather than how it is. There is
by bjornsing 15y ago
Yea, when it comes to ability/creativity almost everything written seems to be about how the author would prefer reality to be rather than how it is.
There is of course a lot of science that a single person simply cannot do themselves, e.g. detecting the higgs boson or sequencing the human genome. But it seems to me that whenever there's something really hard that a single person can do, a "lone genius" will do it first. :)
- drawkbox 15y agoI think this shows even on teams. Typically on teams there is a core or 1-2 people that seem to be driving the innovation/product forward. I think it is inherent in our nature to be different and nature lends itself leading to individuals seeing things a different way and getting these ideas/inventions that they share with a group rather than teams creating things solely. For instance Jonathan Ive, you think he would be better at designing with Bob Smith also helping, design by committee? Products and innovation are individual, production of those products is a team effort. Same with the Woz, Jobs or Bill Gates/Paul Allen, all very individual or core team members or 'lone genuis'es. Creativity is just individual, it can be inspired by external but it really is more individual or unique otherwise those ideas would just be known by the masses and it wouldn't be creative.