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A comment on Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959).

Re:Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959) by aethos on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @12:53PM (#13320421)
>But how to persuade creative people to do so? First and foremost, there must be ease, relaxation, and a general sense of permissiveness. The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome. The individuals must, therefore, have the feeling that the others wont object.

Absolutely true. Brainstorming only works if anything goes.

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Re:Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959) by Pica_soO on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:55PM (#13321497)
Truer Words were never spoken.

What particularly annoys is also that every idea must have a creation story, aka a logical explanation how it came to be in a logical,incremental, analytical step by step way. Even if it never was born this way.

I guess, "I stuffed strange stuff and books into my brain- and one sunny day my sub-conscious gave birth to this. It can invent a how-its-made-story too, if you need that." scares a lot of people, because the process cant be learned, not be controlled, not refined or quantified.

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Re:Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959) by halspero on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:47PM (#13322848)
Agreed. The process is spontaneous and natural. But it can be and usually is damaged, that is confined to smaller and smaller areas of one's life or worldview.
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Re:Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959) by mjevans on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:15PM (#13322111)
If it could be the ideas would have already been found.
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Re:Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959) by Rzor on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:12PM (#13321143)
I find that oddly similar to what John Cleese said about creativity on this speech:

https://vimeo.com/89936101 (Highly recommended, but it lasts more than 30 minutes.)

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