creativity
10 statements across 9 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Oct 11, 2017 by Ray Dalio · across every show →
Everything said about creativity, oldest first
Oct 11, 2017 positive
Dec 14, 2017 negative
Berger: Constant information flow dampers creativity by trapping people in react mode
“One of the biggest issues confronting or putting a damper on creativity now is all of the stuff that's coming at us all the time. And I think to me, that's the, it's an enemy of creativity. You know it can at times inspire create creativity because you can com…”
Apr 10, 2018 positive
Oakley: Poor working memory correlates with creativity and better simplification
“If you have a really bad working memory, in other words, the things that you hold temporarily in mind, that, that can be a great thing, because number one, there's good research that shows that you're more you're more creative, and another thing is it allows y…”
Apr 10, 2018 neutral
Oakley: Focused mantra meditation may suppress default mode activity and creativity
“The mantra meditation can be excellent in helping to even further build your focusing ability, but there's some evidence that at the same time it's also suppressing that default mode activity.
So it may be that you're focusing great.
You can get even better at…”
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Haidt: Call-out culture and self-censorship will severely stunt Gen Z creativity
“And this means we have, we might have a generation that's afraid of, afraid to take risks, afraid to
Play with ideas afraid to challenge dominant ideas.
it's gonna lead to a lot more conformity and a lot more, a lot less creativity.”
Feb 18, 2020 negative
Frank Stephenson argues computers should never be used for initial design ideation
“So I think it's good to use computers, obviously, but I would never, ever believe in using a computer as a tool for creativity at the beginning. You can use it later, like I said, to give you variations and options and things like that, and maybe to speed up t…”
Aug 4, 2020 positive
Sherlock Holmes exemplifies non-linear creative leaps, not just step-by-step hyper-rationality
“People think of Sherlock Holmes as kind of a, someone who's a very, very rational ABC decision-making guru, you know, someone who you should look at as just the model of hyper-rationality, and yet when you start reading the stories, you see that one of the rea…”
Feb 2, 2021
Mullainathan: Creativity requires marrying opposing processes of ideation and filtration
“Which is, I think a lot of people forget that creativity is the marrying of ideation and filtration. That you need the capacity to generate ideas, but you also need the capacity to filter ideas. And these processes are in such fundamental opposition.”
Feb 23, 2021