The Creativity Delusion P1: There is No Genius
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- The Creativity Delusion is a multi-part video essay on how our misconceptions about ideas and the way brains work impact our views about creation. These also extend to intellectual property.
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As I work with IT, my mind goes around with analogies associated with CS. If you think about, the process of creativity is nothing more than an Iteration, the difference between computer software Iteration to humans creativity Iteration is that a computer software will be either right or wrong no matter how much Iterations it processes, as for a Human being every Iteration can produce a change. We are dynamic, we can modify, add and remove ideas and keep progressing. Your illustration of Thomas 'inventing' the Light Bulb is an example of that process. I wish people were more inclined to what makes us different from other animals, which is Thinking. But ironically, people seems to be lazy towards thinking. If the Devil were real, the only thing he would need to do to end the mankind would be makes us not use the most powerful tool we can dispose, our Mind.
It's happening.... for the "thinkers", we are surrounded by negativity, hoping to swallow our driven purpose.
From that study it's just as easy to draw the inference that society isn't effectively supporting or harnessing those geniuses to reach their full potential rather than that there might be minimal to negative correlation between genius and a significant contribution of advancement to humanity.
Some comments point out at other examples of geniuses like Newton and Galileo. As I hope to one day teach history of science, I'd like to point out that it's always easier to point out their discoveries as *theirs* only instead of a product of their interactions with their own local scientific communities, passing concepts back and forth until they reach the final shape.
All science is a group effort, made my many humans over a lot of time. The individualistic culture we are immersed in only hinders these group efforts by putting us into competition with one another instead of using our different skills (or brains, as Anakka Hartwell put in another comment) and perspectives to identify and solve issues. Hope this video series spreads.
It is not only having an idea or the knowledge. The ideal conditions must be present. And one has to be able to manage all that for the idea to mean something. It's impossible to count how many ideas were lost in history because of bad conditions or not knowing what to do with them...
Almost no one is a genius and the modern notion we're all geniuses is as flawed a notion as genius is a purely hereditary phenomenon.
I think "sparks" of creativity can be explained by good ideas leading to other good ideas and ideas who do not work, can sometimes halt the creative process. Sometimes, therefore, a spark of genius is basically the result of sacrificing the bad idea.
I agree 100%
Genius is a myth word.
I believed in my childhood that I cannot become genius in certain things and that in other things I know more than anyone.
I was wrong. Life thought me that effort, error and passion alone can make miracles and not a moment of spark.
Yes, when one is working there becomes a moment of spark, but it is not because I was sitting and drinking coffee all my life but because I was troubled with a problem I was trying to solve.
I think about problem different parts of a day e.g. on a bus to work/school, in school, at home ...
I (my brains automatically) try to connect everyday things with a problem. And every now and then the problem is solved.
So doing and exploring new things and having current problems is vital for creativity, new good inventions, brain stamina ...
This also explains why distraction with smartphones in our freetime is no good. If we are constantly on phones, we are unable to think about out problems and try to find a solution.
Thanks for putting this out for more people,
Have a nice day.
Such high-quality content! I dig into RUclips to find things like this and when I found out you don't have any similar series other than the creativity delusion I was really sad but I appreciate the work you did and I hope to see more of your content!!
Thanks so much for the kind words, Achaq :)
I could agree with the lightbulb moment. But I don't think only certain people have them. I think there is some mechanism behind it, pprobably work. I think it comes from the relaxation after work. And also it's intressting how I heard a study that said that like almost all children classified as "creative geniuses", and the further older they became, the less and less % as creative geniuses. I guess it has to do with that children are less critical, and just do stuff, making them very creative. More adullt persons might think "hmm is this really good", or "hmm what will others think about this" ... etc. so I think that might be a reason.
I dont necessarily agree with the comments, my background is a neuroscientist. I have also worked with the developmentally disabled whose brains look the same on an MRI as "genius's" brains. You have to go deeper and look at the functionality of the neurons and the synapse, as well as the chemical composition. Not every brain functions the same. Some people have brains that function well with memorization while others can memorize minimally but are very good at art. It is not as plain and simple as you are trying to make out. But generally everyone should try to find their brain niche and focus on skills that develop those areas. As well parent support and social interaction build the brain connections.
Well, this doesn't really change the point of the video. And I don't believe you can be good at art if you are bad at memorizing. It's also quite possible to rewire your brain for other functions because of its plasticity.
"I don't believe you can be good at art if you are bad at memorizing."
I would be careful about declaring beliefs like this which can be easily tested and falsified via the scientific method.
It seems that the brain cannot put anything together if it does not receive any input. That is, experience in anything is gained through interaction with one's environment, so it seems. A proof of that is the history of invention, no one ever invented anything, all inventions were actually discoveries.
Edison went through thousands of experiemtns until he found out what made the electrical lamp work...
And how do I get to know what I'm good at,and how do I distinguish that from just liking a lot a specific subject?If the only way to know is by trying everything,uh that seems exausting.isnt there a easier way?
Ok then, explain how I can have deep insights just pop out of nowhere, or how paragraphs appear in my head fully formed. You can't. I know what "ordinary thinking" looks like, do it myself all day. But in those moments, I can tell that something very different is going on, beyond normal thought or ideation.
why their is no genius tell them whos life is effected by thing u guys are out of this world i read your content
a fantastic piece! congrats
I subscribe you just in case you make some more like this
Einstein was a genius.His capacity of mental abstraction from very few dots of information and experimental result led us to a greater picture that couldn't be conceived by some ordinary hard working physicist.No doubt he worked hard,but if you see the scope of theory of relativity and its concepts,you will notice that einstein was different from every other stupid methodological conservative physicist that just wanted categorize things.Einstein wanted the truth,above everything.Stupid math teachers that think they're right all the time really triggers me,because they're not,and the worst,they teach as if they were.Einstein history taught us a greater lesson:we don't need to agree with the actual physicist to be right,we have to doubt and question the nature of reality despite our preconceptions.That is a beautiful reflection on how the human capacity can be extremely high when we have a solid desire to acquaint something.For me,the worst thing is when we obtain satisfaction and stop trying hard to judge the world in a skeptical way,and at the same time that we become mesmerized with its beauty and its magnitude compared to our existence.Studying physics is contemplating existence itself,in a beautiful dance with the cosmos and the world of ideas.In that context,I believe that great geniuses of physics were the ones that weren't satisfied with they common ordinary and boring life of the sensible world,they need to try to arrive at the world of ideas and abstraction through the best understanding of the natural relation and reactions.
Mental abstraction alone cannot accomplish what Einstein did.
Einstein was not a genius, he was a truth seeker. You said it yourself: it was his dissatisfaction with the current explanation of the world that drove him to question and understand. Anyone *could* do this, but most are complacent and don't bother to question how the world is.
@@mintmax But only truth seeking does not lead you to relativity. You can get a lot of different results by "truth seeking", like budha, for example. What Einstein did was take some information and think about it for a long time in a way that no one could do. His personality was important, i agree with you, but what was his most helpful trait? Imagination and asking the right questions. THIS is something that not many people can do. Asking and imagining is actually really hard. Being a truth seeker is something you can learn, yes, but not with as much intensity as a natural truth seeker whose identity was built around that.
@@viniciusrei8865 Dear friend what Einstein did maybe just a few could do it because everyone is wired differently, but that doesn't mean that the others can do things with such great importance like Einstein. There reason why there are no more truth seekers is because everyone now is asleep with technology and don't want to make their brains work and everybody just focus on trivial things. They don't care how the world actually works. You can't say that other people can't do that because everybody has a different way of seeing things and if we have this hunger of knowledge and spend more time with problems we can do it. I think Einstein couldn't have done this is Newton had never talked about gravitation and people say that so many relativity concepts were stolen from someone else and allegedly there's proof.
There is no genius... unless you are me.
And because I am a genius, I know copyright is fucked up and should be abolished.
Not Copyright, but intellectual property. There are two different things :)
Copyright is fine, License system is fucked.
Please do a video on who Elon Musk has copied
will done documentary . as most people i feel like succussfuls is superhuman , but not anymore thank you because you libirate us .
You are a good example of why genius was described as being given "to a select few"
Dank ass truth bomb.
Powerful
Kill copyright.
I have seen you before
Clearly this video is advocating "stealing and copying" as the biggest contributing factor to the works of prominent artists and musicians like Michael Angelo, Mozart and Da Vinci which is a false exaggeration. These artists had never copy-pasted previous material ditto same without adding personal inputs (called "Creativity") to the body of work. In most cases only a small motif or essence of the whole original was reproduced. We not talking about wannabes and content copycats which still exist in our time and are undeniably putting in no work or distinctive elements into their content. Speaking of the great artists and musicians mentioned in this video, most of their work stands as a signature body of work and gives them a unique identity and an identifiable style. Mozart may have learned opera from the Italians (who didn't) but to discredit his Piano Concerto repertoire is a huge bias. Handel was mostly isolated from Bach's work when he wrote his own fugues. It would be highly biased, uninformed and too generalized claim to say that a significant portion of the works of all so-called great artists in human history was essentially unoriginal copied material.
Seems like someone is jealous they aren't very creative. There are creative geniuses and people with high IQs. Get over it.
great video! shame about the unbalanced gender amount of references to geniuses though...2 women vs. looooads of men
You just HAD to bring race into this, didn't you? You could have made your point just as well without going there, but now you have half the people who watch this video tuning out.