Expansion of cognitive thinking, creativity.

 Expansion of cognitive thinking, creativity. 

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Are creativity and intelligence-related?


These two are actually completely different functions. Intelligence is the ability to quickly acquire existing knowledge procedures, and creativity is the ability to solve problems when knowledge and procedures are unknown.


To be creative, you must have some level of intellectual ability, but beyond a certain level of intelligence (IQ 110-120), intelligence and creativity do not have a great correlation.


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There is a prejudice that creative people will not memorize. However, you need to learn the basics through training while storing a lot of knowledge in your head and incorporating important skills into your body, so that you can exert cognitive energy at important moments.


A sufficient amount of training is required to collect and use one's cognitive energy in important situations after not using one's head at unimportant moments. (10,000 hours is the rule, training is required for creative achievement)


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Of course, not everyone who puts in the effort can achieve genius achievements.


"Yeah, 99% hard work. But everyone works like me. I have a 1% inspiration that they don't have." - Edison


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I asked the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle about the source of creativity in art.


He answered it as a metaphor.


The ability to connect distant things to each other, the phenomenon in which brain regions that are very far away from each other, which normally do not send and receive neural signals, send and receive them.


Therefore, creativity is not a function created in the highest areas such as the prefrontal cortex, but an ability that is created by using the entire brain. Creativity is expressed when signals are exchanged between areas that are not normally connected and far apart.


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By 'creative' I mean to use a method that is very different from the one that many people normally use and get better results than would normally be achieved. Therefore, the moment the procedure becomes generalized, it can be said that it is no longer a creative approach.


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Intellectual ability is not just learning and understanding various methods through long-term learning. When you go out into the world and face a lot of problems you don't know how to solve, the ability to come up with new solutions is a person's intellectual ability. How can I get to a better answer in my own way when no one is teaching me the answer?


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The first step in creative thinking, meeting people who think differently or having frequent intellectual conversations with people who see problems from a different perspective. You have to take in the information you didn't know at all and seize the opportunity to come up with ideas. It is necessary for people who look at problems from various and heterogeneous angles to gather and have intellectual conversations, exchange inspiration, and ingest and absorb knowledge. And you have to imitate it elsewhere. The clue to innovation is always in the wrong place.


It is the starting point of creative thinking, not the result, but the transformation by imitating the way of thinking.


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There are no meaningful collisions with the world, creative people, only creative moments.

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