{"id":3889,"date":"2011-04-14T16:22:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T16:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2011-04-14T16:22:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T16:22:33","slug":"social-and-individual-components-of-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3889","title":{"rendered":"Social and Individual Components of Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is very good. And it is fast.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameBorder=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NugRZGDbPFU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"390\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have enjoyed several of <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenberlinjohnson.com\/\">Steven Johnson&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> previous books, <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0684868768?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0684868768\">Emergence<\/a><\/strong> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000HEW0R0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B000HEW0R0\"><strong>Mind Wide Open<\/strong> <\/a>and his latest one, Where <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594487715?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1594487715\">Good Ideas Come From<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0looks to be a must read, though I think those of you who have read <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004J8HXOA?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B004J8HXOA\">Wikinomics<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or works like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061339202?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0061339202\"><strong>Flow<\/strong> <\/a>by <strong>Mihaly\u00a0Csikszentmihalyi<\/strong> will find some of Johnson&#8217;s points in the video to be familiar as will those long time readers who <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?cat=23&amp;paged=11\">have<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?cat=23&amp;paged=10\">seen<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?cat=23&amp;paged=9\">my<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?cat=23&amp;paged=8\">views<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?m=200504&amp;paged=2\">on<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/understanding-cognition-part-iii.html\">horizontal thinking\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3609\">and<\/a>\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/cognition-of-fingerspitzengefuhl-in.html\">insight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My students watched this and reacted by defining themselves as those who were creative mostly\u00a0through social collaboration but a decided minority required solitude and an environmental <strong><em>filter<\/em><\/strong> to think clearly and creatively &#8211; not a <strong><em>catalyst<\/em><\/strong> of a\u00a0series of\u00a0 social-intellectual stimuli. For them, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cognitive_load\">cognitive load\u00a0<\/a>generated by\u00a0the environment amounted to an overload, a distracting white\u00a0noise that short-circuited the emergence of good ideas.<\/p>\n<p>This suggests to me that there are multiple and very different\u00a0neuronal pathways to creativity in the brain and a person&#8217;s predisposition in their executive function, say for example the classic &#8220;ADHD&#8221; kid at the back of the class, may have different requirements to be creative than a peer without that characteristic. It also means that creativity may be subject to improvement if we can cultivate proficiency in\u00a0several &#8220;styles&#8221; of creative thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is very good. And it is fast. I have enjoyed several of Steven Johnson&#8217;s previous books, Emergence and Mind Wide Open and his latest one, Where Good Ideas Come From\u00a0looks to be a must read, though I think those of you who have read Wikinomics\u00a0or works like Flow by Mihaly\u00a0Csikszentmihalyi will find some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,46,119,420,133,487,24,580,346,389,21,471,215,34,525,25,78,388,23,336,47,333,394,462,238,376,380,562,112,436,32,268,558,381,31,13,61,137,273,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-analytic","category-attention","category-authors","category-book","category-brain","category-cognition","category-collaboration","category-connectivity","category-counterintuitive","category-creativity","category-cultural-intelligence","category-culture","category-education","category-epistemology","category-horizontal-thinking","category-ideas","category-innovation","category-insight","category-intellectuals","category-intelligence","category-medici-effect","category-meme","category-metacognition","category-mihaly-csikszentmihalyi","category-network-theory","category-organizations","category-perception","category-priming","category-psychology","category-science","category-social-networks","category-social-science","category-society","category-synthesis","category-theory","category-visualization","category-web-20","category-wikinomics","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}