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funkyjunk3Nov 17, 2007
I totally agree that marketing has skewed people's view of abilities. I'm almost sure that if you dedicated the rest of your life to bodybuilding you would get broad shoulders. However, these "quick and easy" programs that sell DVDs/books are not going to instantly get you perfect results. I disagree however that you must have a "gift" in order to do things extraordinary. EVERYTHING in life is at varying degrees, including talents. It is true that people aren't going to instantly become 1000% more efficient or creative at what they do, there's variability. Some people will progress farther than others, and at different rates by the virtue of how variable humans are. People who are gifted are helped along because of their extreme inherent abilities, this is true. This isn't to say that in order to master something you have to be gifted at picking it up quickly. It simply means that for the rest of us who aren't we have to utilize MUCH more time and energy to focus on getting there. There are master linguists who can absorb languages like no tomorrow. There are also linguists who are fluent in 5 languages but aren't can't absorb as fast. They took more effort to get there, sure. But they are still as equally capable at speaking the language. This is a spectrum of absorbtion, not ability.
funkyjunk3Nov 17, 2007
Society's views creativity in a horribly narrow view. What most people don't get is that creativity doesn't have to be artistic. It can be writing code, installing lightbulbs, etc. If you ever talk with a person who's worked in a specialty field for 20 years (yes, even lighting technicians!), there is a DAMN amount of creativity needed to solve complex problems. Creativity in its rawest form is solving problems. The computer programmer writing code is using his creative ability to solve problems. A farmer would be creative when he figures out a new planting strategy which yields more crops. An artist painting a landscape is being creative in transcribing the scene in front of them into a layout on a canvas. its all creativity, its just that people have different ways of expressing it. if EVERYONE in the entire world studied from birth to paint, i'm sure there would be a hell of a lot more Michaelangelos, Da Vincis, etc., etc. etc. And of course there would still be people who could only draw stick figures. It would fit like any other bell curve.
gambit89Nov 17, 2007
"we were all genius during our childhood, but then due to wrong education system and social pressures most of us became ordinary or average person."If anyone finds this statement interesting, I highly recommend them to watch Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk linked at the end of the article. The name of the talk is, "Do Schools Kill Creativity?"
funkyjunk3Nov 17, 2007
bravo!
archer104Nov 18, 2007
Running from bad people is never a waste of time.
narcissystemNov 18, 2007
all of that, and modest to boot. go you, you blow that horn.
andreahessNov 19, 2007
Excellent article by Tina!
raindogmxNov 19, 2007
I agree with you but I dislike the 'packaging' of this sort of articles and books, more specifically the title, for many reasons, the first being that it immediately forces the reader to believe he is not a 'highly inovative' person, see, there's no logical way of wanting to read such an article and consider yourself so. Another reason would be that it is misleading, far from really being habits of such people its just a way for the author to give a sense of legitimacy to his views but it is not really backed up by any scientific observation. It's all perception. And I do think reading this can be helpful. I insist: It's the packaging what I don't like.
jadugarpunitoOct 13, 2011
Yes, the first step in being creative is to make a decision: that you are creative. That one single decision helps much more than anything else. once we start living with this thought in our mind, we are sure to cultivate many habits talked about in this article.