Wednesday, 9 October 2013

The nature of genius: power, preeminence, from a person

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* In considering the nature of genius, it is not possible to define it in terms of a single variable - but requires several factors: the t...
Friday, 4 October 2013

Review of Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England c.1860-1990 by Adrian Wooldridge

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* http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/why-did-british-left-reject.html *
Thursday, 3 October 2013

Comparing mental age ratio with percentile measures of IQ - the intrinsic imprecision of high IQ measures in adults

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* I dislike the current method of expressing IQ rankings with an average of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (or 16): in fact I think it...
Wednesday, 2 October 2013

How big is the IQ cognitive elite?

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* For Herrnstein and Murray publishing The Bell Curve in 1996, the cognitive elite comprised those of: IQ 125 and above, or 5% of the p...
Friday, 13 September 2013

The main problem of creativity is the disposition to recognize problems

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* I get the impression that most of the psychology of creativity has been too much focused on the problem of 'where do (good) ideas co...
Wednesday, 11 September 2013

A Pygmalion theory of creativity: 'Love of the subject' is the perspective which enables creativity

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* I have previously argued that creativity is rare, and that it is typically inhibited (or more accurately that its per-requisites are lac...

The social perspective is what (usually) trumps and inhibits creativity

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* In the previous post http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/being-creative-is-not-seeking-novelty.html I created a 'T...
Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Being creative is not seeking novelty; but drawing a line around part of the world, and abstractly defining a problem

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* The tests designed to measure creativity by measuring the ability to generate novelty ('list as many uses as possible for a brick...
Friday, 30 August 2013

The unfortunate (but necessary) negativity of young genius

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* Because creativity is bound-up with character (specifically, the personality trait of high Psychoticism), it comes in a package. And som...
Monday, 19 August 2013

Shamans and creativity

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* About a decade ago I was reading everything I could find on the subject of shamans - scholarship, ethnography, memoirs and journals, lit...
Saturday, 17 August 2013

Thinking about thinking creatively

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* Creativity is about abstraction of function from the social situation - this is a necessary preliminary to being creative about somethi...
Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Genius, creativity and breakthrough innovations

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* It is necessary to be clear about the relationship between creativity and genius - and the relationship between genius and breakthroughs...
Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Is creativity random? An intrinsic ability? No: ultimately it is a matter of sensitivity to external inspiration

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* Most scientific accounts of creativity converge onto the idea that creativity is one half of a kind of natural selection process by whic...
Monday, 12 August 2013

In an evil society, most creativity will be evil: most creatives will be engaged in destruction of The Good

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* Although I argue for the importance of creativity in human affairs, and therefore of the importance of the creatives who do the primary...

Ordinary genius? Is it real genius? No - only the 'magicians' are real geniuses

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* No ordinary genius is the title of a photographic biography of Richard Feynman. The term comes from a quotation from Mark Kac which s...
Sunday, 11 August 2013

Fake creativity versus real creativity

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* In discussing creativity, a decision must be made as to whether we are going to give primacy to process or outcome. (Not neglecting th...

How to be more creative - gratuitous advice

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* Increasing the proportion of unstructured time alone is the key - as Glenn Gould once said: GOULD: I don't know what the effective ...
Thursday, 8 August 2013

The rarity of creativity

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* I believe creativity is rare, because creative people are rare - and by rare I mean a small minority, the size of which varies between ...
Wednesday, 7 August 2013

Why Concientiousness, Agreeableness/ Empathizing are anti-creative

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* The positive correlation between creativity and Eysenck's Psychoticism trait, also implies a positive correlation with the more spec...
Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Creative is not what you *do*, but who you *are*: the phenomenology of creativity

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* Creative people are made that way: it is personality. But why? What do creatives get out of being creative? What, on other words, is...
Tuesday, 30 July 2013

The (annoying) arrogance of creativity

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* Creativity is a trait: a personality trait. Therefore, although its overall level and expression can be modulated by self-training and...
Monday, 29 July 2013

What of the Mute Inglorious Miltons? - unacknowledged creativity

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* Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway...