I think we should also recognize the pitfalls of those, because being "creative" is not better or worse than the alternative.
Receptivity: Open your head to new ideas but not so much that the brain falls, if we are not careful we may take false input and without discipline we can easily feed with the wrong data.
Curiosity/Wide Range of Interests: For the output is a double edge sword,
we can turn this to a CON if not careful, any task require some minimal level of knowledge/practice to be useful, if we spread too thin be became useless in every front.
Attentiveness: I agree with the content, not the title, "creative" kind is less fixated on topics, "pragmatic" kind can be very attentive, but more focused in their areas of expertise. They may only have a hammer but is a hell of a hammer.
Connection Seeking: Tread carefully, because you may start finding connection that doesn't exist, everything is connected but not connected to each other, if you are not careful you could end up dwelling in metaphysics, the powers of crystals and believing the earth is flat.
Conviction: I don't think this is exclusive of the "creative" kind. Just how drastic is the change and how wide the net of possible outcomes.
Complexity: This point is not very clear to me, but makes a important point, we really enjoy stating things, kinda like advancing them and dislike keep going to the end (or is just me). We tend to have a bunch of almost finished projects because we get excited about something before we finish the past thing, we hate keep doing "the same thing", we love variety, but we know the devil is in the details, but we don't care about those details! we want the big picture! we want to connect this big thing with the next big thing and see how it works with the rest of big things.
An extra of mine: We usually don't care about the usefulness of some knowledge or project, we often do silly amusing things, just because we can, or is a challenge, we have to be careful not to only do silly amusing things and get our feet on the ground sometimes, we can't be on the clouds all the time. And earch step from the concept to the finished thing gets harder and harder for us but we have to learn to push though (or if you are lucky find someone who enjoys that part :) ) but as someone unlucky that way, is good to face your limitations.
I use "" in "creative" because I'm not sure is that simple of a descriptor, very pragmatic and focused people find very specific and creative solutions. To me is more about the "big picture"/"detail oriented" kinds, is about how broad the interests, how we understand a system: some from start to finish in orderly fashion or get confused; some from top to bottom with prinkles of details or we get lost.
I agree that there are considerations to everything. We should critique information presented to us. Hopefully, that’s how we get to the truth. Pitting creativity against pragmatism is not what this post is about. In order to deliver you need pragmatism and that can come about creatively.
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I think we should also recognize the pitfalls of those, because being "creative" is not better or worse than the alternative.
Receptivity: Open your head to new ideas but not so much that the brain falls, if we are not careful we may take false input and without discipline we can easily feed with the wrong data.
Curiosity/Wide Range of Interests: For the output is a double edge sword,
we can turn this to a CON if not careful, any task require some minimal level of knowledge/practice to be useful, if we spread too thin be became useless in every front.
Attentiveness: I agree with the content, not the title, "creative" kind is less fixated on topics, "pragmatic" kind can be very attentive, but more focused in their areas of expertise. They may only have a hammer but is a hell of a hammer.
Connection Seeking: Tread carefully, because you may start finding connection that doesn't exist, everything is connected but not connected to each other, if you are not careful you could end up dwelling in metaphysics, the powers of crystals and believing the earth is flat.
Conviction: I don't think this is exclusive of the "creative" kind. Just how drastic is the change and how wide the net of possible outcomes.
Complexity: This point is not very clear to me, but makes a important point, we really enjoy stating things, kinda like advancing them and dislike keep going to the end (or is just me). We tend to have a bunch of almost finished projects because we get excited about something before we finish the past thing, we hate keep doing "the same thing", we love variety, but we know the devil is in the details, but we don't care about those details! we want the big picture! we want to connect this big thing with the next big thing and see how it works with the rest of big things.
An extra of mine: We usually don't care about the usefulness of some knowledge or project, we often do silly amusing things, just because we can, or is a challenge, we have to be careful not to only do silly amusing things and get our feet on the ground sometimes, we can't be on the clouds all the time. And earch step from the concept to the finished thing gets harder and harder for us but we have to learn to push though (or if you are lucky find someone who enjoys that part :) ) but as someone unlucky that way, is good to face your limitations.
I use "" in "creative" because I'm not sure is that simple of a descriptor, very pragmatic and focused people find very specific and creative solutions. To me is more about the "big picture"/"detail oriented" kinds, is about how broad the interests, how we understand a system: some from start to finish in orderly fashion or get confused; some from top to bottom with prinkles of details or we get lost.
I agree that there are considerations to everything. We should critique information presented to us. Hopefully, that’s how we get to the truth. Pitting creativity against pragmatism is not what this post is about. In order to deliver you need pragmatism and that can come about creatively.