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- RobotBuddha, on 11/17/2007, -4/+64Well if some guy on the internet claims to have cracked the secret to an extraordinarily complex aspect of higher thought, with irrefutable evidence like handpicked quotes from people in no way involved in cognitive science, who am I to argue?
- Uranium118, on 11/17/2007, -5/+21The "gift" is drugs.
- lhbaker, on 11/17/2007, -0/+12Scott? Is that you?
- raindogmx, on 11/17/2007, -2/+14Highly creative people don't become so by following lists of 'habits'.
- imikedaman, on 11/17/2007, -3/+13There are very different and very REAL physical differences between people that lead me to believe that this is as much crap as the people on late-night TV suggesting that you too can be a very-fit muscle man like them. I can follow their regiment and I might gain some muscle mass, but I'm not going to suddenly "achieve" broad shoulders or a chiseled jaw.
The same is true for the brain. Even though the brain is malleable to a certain extent thanks to the magic of learning, there are real physical differences in the brain that lead to mostly unchangeable differences in creativity, artistic abilities, intelligence, and certain mental disorders. That's why you can't just "break out" of depression or why you can't paint perfect representations of anything directly from memory unless you have the "gift". You either have the ability, or you don't.
If you ask me, people in general should stop trying to be something they're not and start discovering what they are. - GMorgan, on 11/17/2007, -0/+8You just broke rule 2.
- SuperJimmyJimbo, on 11/17/2007, -1/+9#8: Coffee Addiction
- GMorgan, on 11/17/2007, -0/+8#4 is annoying. I'm at my most creative just as I'm about to go to bed. More often than not some idea (probably idiotic, sometime useful) pops in just as I'm about to sleep and then that means it'll be another 24 hours before I sleep (I've given up fighting it, I will lose. Better to scratch the itch).
You never get ideas when you want them though. I always get them as I'm about to give up and do something else (or sleep). - Pake, on 11/17/2007, -6/+13Good god, stop with the stupid "7 Habits of" topics. Stephen Covey should be slapped every day for such a ridiculous book and anyone who references it in any form should be as well.
- kingvik, on 11/17/2007, -1/+7And rule 1.
- Rocketbird, on 11/17/2007, -1/+7If you had read the article more closely you would've seen that this is all a summarization of a book by Scott Berkun. From Berkun's website: Who is Scott Berkun? An author, consultant and software industry veteran. He writes books, consults with managers, and teaches creative thinking at the University of Washington.
- RobotBuddha, on 11/17/2007, -0/+5And that still might as well be "some guy on the internet". There's a reason anything dealing with consciousness has to be so rigorously quantified, and without citations of experimental evidence the argument should be assumed to be at a low level no matter if it's a guy paraphrasing a secondary source or the actual author of a secondary source targeted at a popular audience.
I'm not trying to be all elitist, or throw out arguments of "No comments on science from non-researchers!". But if you're not an actual researcher with the cred that goes along with it, you should expect to get a higher amount of skepticism than they would. In the end the merit of the text has to stand on its own, apart from arguments from authority, or it's essentially worthless. And a pop-science text does not count as a real citation. - funkyjunk3, on 11/17/2007, -1/+5and burn out at the end. It becomes a master then. I want control over my own creative process without a crutch that costs money and physical damage.
- Mothrog, on 11/17/2007, -4/+88) Not listening to self help dildos.
- funkyjunk3, on 11/17/2007, -0/+4hmm, maybe innovation IS a habit.
- sahala, on 11/17/2007, -0/+3Racing a cat against a Porche might be a creative solution to a problem, just not for the purposes of street racing. On top of that, it wouldn't be particularly polite to do that to your cat.
I agree that these are observations of the behavior of creative people. However, I think there are more creative people out there than you think. A lot of creative people don't recognize situations or behaviors that maximize the output of their creativity. For instance, you might be super-creative and have great ideas, but you're lazy (not picking on you...we're all lazy) and don't always persist in the execution details of what you're working on. Or maybe you're scared of failing, and don't take enough risks bringing ideas to fruition.
My point is, there are many human behaviors that detract from creativity surfacing. Call them bad habits. Sometimes people need help getting past these limitations, and this list alludes to that. - inactive, on 11/17/2007, -3/+6#8 Don't make lists.
- funkyjunk3, on 11/17/2007, -0/+3Society'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. - funkyjunk3, on 11/17/2007, -0/+3Do most people actively, wholeheartedly believe in what they are trying to achieve most of the time? Or are they doing something because they believe in other's opinions over their own?
- semcents, on 11/18/2007, -0/+3Very well done. I will use this as a motivational tool for the future.
- leftist, on 11/17/2007, -0/+3Tina is a tremendously insightful individual, and a powerhouse creative.
- andrewsas, on 11/17/2007, -0/+3#9: Bipolar disorder. Rarely discussed, but it's there!
- inactive, on 11/17/2007, -2/+5Actually, if you're not already incredibly creative, these seven habits will do you no good at all, since they're (mostly, sort of) *properties* of someone who is incredibly creative, and not elements which CAUSE creativity in a person. It'd be like painting my cat candy apple red and duct taping a whale-tail to her ass and expecting her to do favorably in a street race with a Porsche.
- gmalonzo, on 11/17/2007, -1/+3Great article that re-iterates tried and true techniques for IT professionals and other geniuses on how to be more productive, less sarcastic, and kind not only to everyone but to yourself as well.
- lilhurt38, on 11/17/2007, -1/+3They forgot one, they don't spend hours of their day on digg or on other sites. Damn, I guess I'm not as innovative as I thought.
- badugi, on 11/17/2007, -1/+3I dont know why you guys are flaming this article but this is a good read and it is very inspiring.
- AlexWSC, on 11/17/2007, -0/+2Stephen Covey's book is a classic. One of my top 5 for sure. I agree, some people play off the title a little too much. It's all worth it when you get a good article like this though.
- Rocketbird, on 11/17/2007, -0/+2Whether or not it's pop-psychology is up for debate, but as a university professor, at an excellent University no less, he is required to do research. I suppose finding his actual credentials (doctorate, etc) would be necessary to validate the quality of his research.
My point overall is that maybe the blogger guy isn't the best person to have presented us with this information, but obviously this Berkun guy has had a moderate amount of success in his life. - funkyjunk3, on 11/17/2007, -0/+2I 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. - raindogmx, on 11/17/2007, -0/+2Do this highly creative people become so by following a list of habits they got from a book? No, that wouldn't be very creative.
- merkal2005, on 11/17/2007, -1/+3For those of you who think that you were not born as creative; 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. Thanks to Tina, Stephen Covey and Scott Berkun that they remind me if i can follow some guidelines, i can discover the child within. I don't see any reason to be offensive without trying these habits at first.
- funkyjunk3, on 11/17/2007, -0/+2bravo!
- HalfGiraffe, on 11/17/2007, -0/+2I remember reading about one study of creative people where they tried to find out what made them different from ordinary people. Was it their background, education, diet, upbringing etc etc. They only thing that they could find different in the creative people was that they thought of themselves as being creative.
- imikedaman, on 11/17/2007, -0/+2I never said you must have a gift to do things that are extraordinary; I said that there are some things which can be learned (like the learning of 5 languages from your example), while some things are determined by physical differences in your body or mind. Considering people don't "learn" how to be creative, odds are it's due to people just being born with the gift.
To nitpick the article from another angle: it's nice and all that creative people are willing to take risks, but don't think for a second that taking risks will suddenly make you more creative. That's just plain faulty logic. - Coffeedemon, on 11/17/2007, -1/+2If they were that innovative they wouldn't fall into habits...
- Sheliacandance, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1I think I've found my new desktop wallpaper here. Amazing ideas here!
- raindogmx, on 11/19/2007, -0/+1I 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.
- narcissystem, on 11/18/2007, -0/+1all of that, and modest to boot.
go you, you blow that horn. - jake8689, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1or make lists about other lists
- andycr512, on 11/18/2007, -0/+1Apparently Digg has bipostal disorder.
- TheMachine1, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1The first one is the most important. I think good ideas are common. Making those ideas into reality is the hard part. Might be an inverse relationship between creativity and ability to sustain work on a project.
- andreahess, on 11/19/2007, -0/+1Excellent article by Tina!
- Gambit89, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1"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."
I highly recommend anyone to watch Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk linked at the end of the article. - archer104, on 11/18/2007, -1/+2Running from bad people is never a waste of time.
- artsyave, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1Thank you!! :) I appreciate the encouraging words.
- TravelTom, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1Great tips!
- funkyjunk3, on 11/17/2007, -1/+2No, but this list might spark something in them to do something new in their lives. These "habits" don't work best if they're followed to the letter. Rather, if people ask themselves how one or two of them apply in their life, and if they see inspiration from that, then the list has helped them.
Ask if anything in the list helps you. If it does, awesome! if it doesn't, move on! It helped me, your milage may vary. - Gambit89, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1"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?" - artsyave, on 11/17/2007, -3/+4Hi Guys! Thank you for all the discussion and encouraging words. I appreciate opinions from both sides.
Yes, creative people do not follow lists.. the point of this list is to highlight common characteristics and habits found in highly innovative people... so that we can perhaps be inspired and bring some of that boost of creative energy into our lives. Here's to your well-being!
I highly recommend the TED talk for Sir Ken Robinson on the topic. It's linked at the end of the article. - lhbaker, on 11/17/2007, -2/+3I thought rule number 2 was you don't talk about Fight Club.
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