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�Mere repetition of previous work is necessarily dis- qualified as creative� (Simonton, 2000a, p. 286) even though the work may be outstanding or meet world-class standards in some fields. Alternatively, having deep expertise does not limit one to facile, stereotypical, and superficial approaches to complex problems that ultimately thwart creativity. Flexible thinking, or the ability to apply information from a different area to a new problem when needed, may be the key to cre- ative productivity in general and to being creative in multiple domains (Plucker & Beghetto, 2004). It is also possible that technical precision, skill automaticity, and large stores of knowledge are more important at certain stages of talent devel-opment than at others (Dai, 2010).
Good quote.
Kuhn said:
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.
I would add this from a noted Aspie:
To comprehend and cope with our environment we develop mental patterns or concepts of meaning. The purpose of this paper is to sketch out how we destroy and create these patterns to permit us to both shape and be shaped by a changing environment. In this sense, the discussion also literally shows why we cannot avoid this kind of activity if we intend to survive on our own terms. The activity is dialectic in nature generating both disorder and order that emerges as a changing and expanding universe of mental concepts matched to a changing and expanding universe of observed reality.
Read the whole thing:
http://www.goalsys.com/books/documents/DESTRUCTION_AND_CREATION.pdfSomeone stuck inside a given mental model which was spoon-fed and cemented with endless repetition will not be capable of abandoning one mental model for a new one they develop. During times of little change this person will do fine, but during times of rapid change or difficulty, they will fail.
Those who are Eminent are of the latter. They cope with disorder and bring disorder, but they also resolve disorder.
So, then, beginning with the end goal in mind, how do you create this vision in the mind of a child and then sustain it to adulthood? Its one thing to say what it is, but another to speak to what should be.
... what is needed is a vision rooted in human nature so noble, so attractive that it not only attracts the uncommitted and magnifies the spirit and strength of its adherents, but also undermines the dedication and determination of any competitors or adversaries
