Can a group of people be creative or is the creative process by definition an individual one?
A group can certainly be creative – not surprising, given the central role that conversation plays in helping the creative process along. It seems nearly incredible, history’s bizarre little practical joke, that Michelangelo and Leonardo should have known each other – history’s two greatest visual artists – and that Mozart and Beethoven should have known each other. Does creativity for you involve more sudden inspiration or hard work? The imbalance between inspiration and realization is one of the deep inherent tragedies of human life. It takes so little time to conceive something new, and so damned long to do anything about your conception. I guess there’s an analogy in nature: it doesn’t take long to conceive a child, but to rear one is another story. (No doubt a million people have made this particular comparison.) The most creative period of my life was my early twenties (which is true of most people); I had ideas during that period that I still haven’t succeeded in working out sat
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- Because I am so interested in people’s creative process, I love to see workspaces and projects in progress. We all know that knitting and crocheting are portable — all you need is a ball of yarn and a couple of metal hooks or needles — but, what else are people carting around?
- How will comments received during the vetting process be reviewed? Will twenty individual comments count more than one comment from a group of twenty people?
- What is the definition of race as in defining terms of a certain group of people?
