Creative minds: the links between mental illness and creativity

Re:Creative minds: the links between mental illness and crea... by 10ren on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @02:15PM (#596383)

To see something that does not exist (and then create it) is surely out of touch with reality, and a form of psychosis.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

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Re:Creative minds: the links between mental illness and crea... by timr on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @06:50PM (#596924)

I hate that quote. It makes "progress" seem inevitably adversarial, when in fact, most of the things that we see as "progress" in the world are evolutionary phenomena -- adaptive by nature.

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Re:Creative minds: the links between mental illness and crea... by 10ren on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @07:29PM (#597032)

I interpret the quote as applying to things I do, not to things I see; and as difficulties in general, not necessarily adversarial.

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