Re:I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
by lifeisstillgood on Monday August 06, 2018 @05:02AM
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This I get - i often have an idea of how some code should look or work, but trying to explain it or justify it in a JIRA ticket is flat out impossible - it's easier just to write it and go there !
Creativity is absolutely a team sport. It's just not a timed sport.
Re:I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
by dredmorbius on Monday August 06, 2018 @11:27AM
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I get where you're coming from. Yes, sharing and mixing of ideas between people is important. But so is solitary, quiet, away, alone time.
The difference in rates and understanding of our internal and external informational exchanges is particularly crucial, as noted in the passage quoted above. It's far too easy for bad or extraneous inputs to derail the creative process.
I came here to say something similar. My creativity will be fairly good when I'm engaged with others. OTOH, if I need to be more than just creative, i.e. thoughtful, I need to be offline.
Re:I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
by commandlinefan on Monday August 06, 2018 @10:59AM
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Well, file this one along with open offices and scrum with "ideas that managers wish would work so insist do work" so we're going to end up living with forever.
I kind of agree. At least, that's generally the way I prefer to do it. But I find I'm most creative when I'm working with other people, as long as I like working with them. They just always have ideas, and things to add to my own ideas, that I could never reach on my own.
John Cleese has a great video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g
Re:I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
by dredmorbius on Monday August 06, 2018 @09:13AM
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Cleese's talks on this are good, personal faves, and have useful advice. But they're also oriented to a specific activity: developing comedic scripts. I'd be somewhat cautious in overgeneralising.
Again, not that there aren't useful concepts, and his anti-creativity measures strike me as valid.
[There's] a very long and well-established literature in psychology that getting groups of people together is no way to come up with ideas. Creativity is not a team sport. What you're looking for is somebody's individual, intellectual trunk to make new connections and come up with something new.
Let's imagine billions of neurons in my head communicating with stuff they've been talking about all their lives together: there's a high probability that occasionally they'll come up with something new. Let's now think of the line of communication that you and I have got between each other, which is impoverished, because we have to try and translate complex ideas into language, and how many times do you find you've got a good idea, it's almost in symbolic thought inside your head, and you really can't articulate it to someone. And when you do, they get the wrong idea, because really, language can't encapsulate it until it's fully formed. There's no good evidence that I know of that these brainstorming sessions will come up with a solution or a new idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfMvqkrQkYQ