Comments on: Creativity: a scientific viewpoint « Phil Wilson’s Mathematics Weblog

By: bclemes

bclemes — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:50:40 +0000

Lascivious,

I set up this blog as part of a college creativity class, so the students probably got the point because of lectures and discussions. Anyway, thanks for visiting the blog! I wondered whether anyone outside out class ever would.

By: Lascivious

Lascivious — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:25:22 +0000

Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Lascivious!

By: Colene Keefer

Colene Keefer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:04:28 +0000

This is a very interesting article. I liked the examples of how science and math can be creative, and how that tied in to what we have been talking about on class. I was interesting to read about the composers and how they were at there most creative after 12 years of intense studying. I definitely agree with that statement. When you work that long and that hard on something you know it better that the back of your own hand. It makes it a lot easer to truly find new and creative ideas in that field. I all so like how they talked about the definition of creativity and not only broke it up in to three sub categorizes but also explained those categorizes.

By: Bunny Clemes

Bunny Clemes — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:08:31 +0000

I am so glad you read this article, Sprig! I was hoping someone would. I, also, thought it to be a very insightful blog entry about creativity.

By: Sprigley Keys Allan

Sprigley Keys Allan — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:53:58 +0000

I read this post about creativity and absolutely LOVED it. The speaker’s three requirements for creativity were right on. She said that to be creative it had to be NEW, SUPRISING AND VALUABLE. I thought that was really interesting. However in my opinion the most thought provoking aspect of the entire conversation was the comment on how people, particularly in mathematics, are at their most creative up until the age of thirty. I think this is true as well because people shut down their creative minds to blend in and become on of the mass. Very few people don’t follow this path but those few, at least in business, usually end up very rich, very famous or both. Some example some people who have not shut down their creativity are, Richard Bronson, Steve Jobs and my father. My father owns a tea company as well as being a venture capitalist, which if you want to succeed requires great amounts of creativity.