Re:The two types of creativity that peak at different ages
by karmakaze on Saturday June 25, 2022 @05:51PM
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Being an early computer hobbyist, I've always been both experimental and conceptual where they push-pull each other in unanticipated directions.
I would say that the common element is that they are irreverent in the sense that ideas are not bounded by what's already been done, or considered known. Early in life, it's merely lack of exposure. Later it's having got good at recognizing various thinking boxes and practicing thinking outside them.
Re:The two types of creativity that peak at different ages
by bsder on Saturday June 25, 2022 @07:27PM
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It takes 25 years until you've made all the mistakes in your experiments and can start making new ones. :)
It's like embedded electronics engineers. I don't know of a good one that doesn't have a very grey beard.
"According to the study […] there are two types of creativity that can blossom at different points in a person’s life. [1] Conceptual innovators tend to do their best work in their mid-twenties while [2] experimental innovators peak in their fifties, the researchers contend."
"[…] radical thinkers who come up with something new usually do so before they are steeped in the conventions of their field. Meanwhile, experimenters take decades of trial and error and accumulated knowledge to make unusual connections, going beyond the conventions of their domain."