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Stem0037 | 1 year ago

While deliberate practice is undoubtedly crucial for developing creativity and expertise, I think there's an important nuance we often overlook - the role of diverse experiences and cross-pollination of ideas.

Deliberate practice helps refine skills and deepen domain knowledge, but breakthrough creativity often comes from making unexpected connections between disparate fields. Some of history's most creative figures - like Leonardo da Vinci or Benjamin Franklin - were polymaths who excelled in multiple domains.

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Instantnoodl|1 year ago

This! Most of my creativity in private projects stems from having build a broad space of knowledge/experiences. Having tinkered with a lot of different disconnected things really helps me find interesting bits to combine in a new and creative way that I never had imagined before :)

mbivert|1 year ago

> the role of diverse experiences and cross-pollination of ideas

Add to this: giving room for ideas to grow: the more you wait, the more diverse and numerous the life experiences, all of them having the potential to shape those uncrystallized ideas.

rasengan|1 year ago

This is why AI can in fact create things that haven’t yet been.

eyelidlessness|1 year ago

Sure, but so can pure randomness, for the same reason. It is creative in the literal sense, but not in the ineffable sense that humans tend to describe in humans.

soxletor|1 year ago

I must not be using the right models because this is exactly what AI can not currently do IMO.