Re:Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization
by zhengyi13 on Thursday August 01, 2024 @02:33PM
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I appreciate the martial arts context. I share it, albeit in a different art. For our part, we spend varying amounts of time talking about concept/principle pieces of the puzzle, and demoing/drilling very specific techniques. We need (we think) both.
Over time, the regular drilling makes recognition of context a great deal faster, and the conceptual pieces make improv at that point start to look creative or magical, but it's not - it's just all that drilling, and familiarity, and interconnected understanding in gestalt that enables "creativity".
Re:Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization
by ahazred8ta on Sunday August 04, 2024 @04:49PM
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Show me wax on wax off. Show me long stroke up and down. You come tomorrow same time.
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There's being taught and then there's exploring and practice. It's the exploring and practice that is often missing today, IMO because we all want everything to happen so quickly.
In my sport of choice, jiujitsu, there's been a shift happening in teaching. Traditionally the teacher would show a move or two then have the class drill the move. The shift now is more conceptual where the teacher might say the goal is get chest to chest and then have the students operate at 20% figuring it out on their own. While there are some pretty vocal camps on both sides, I think having both methods is the best to learn from. Being taught a solution to a problem a student discovered on their own during discovery is when learning really takes hold IMO.
Finally, the best way to really learn that I have found is to teach something.