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The studies' findings include:
* Creative ideas are by definition novel, and novelty can trigger feelings of uncertainty that make most people uncomfortable.
* People dismiss creative ideas in favor of ideas that are purely practical -- tried and true.
* Objective evidence shoring up the validity of a creative proposal does not motivate people to accept it.
* Anti-creativity bias is so subtle that people are unaware of it, which can interfere with their ability to recognize a creative idea.
Discuss.|||It depends. Sometimes, creative ideas are just different, not necessarily better.|||OMG BIASED!
Just kidding. Yes, sometimes people change the way something works just so it's different... And I guess it's a good thing that we don't just accept change even if they tell us it's better... If anything, being flooded by publicity and marketing means that all kinds of new junk is thrown at us with labels of being "better" than what we already know gets the job done.
In that sense, maybe the bias is useful.
But... shutting down creativity not only means that you waste less effort on "new" solutions that won't work, you also spend less effort on new solutions that can make a substantial positive change. There's a cost to innovation, creativity, and research, but there are rewards too.|||I think fear of failure is probably more important. Because not only does it relate to creativity it has broader implications. If you're afraid of failure for various reasons, you don't take chances, you don't experiment, you don't learn. imo you learn a lot from screwing up. As long as you learn something from it, screwing up is a fantastic thing to do.|||Quote:
I think fear of failure is probably more important. Because not only does it relate to creativity it has broader implications. If you're afraid of failure for various reasons, you don't take chances, you don't experiment, you don't learn. imo you learn a lot from screwing up. As long as you learn something from it, screwing up is a fantastic thing to do.
Wise people learn from mistakes.
Wiser people learn from the mistakes of others.|||I agree with this only because it is the conventional wisdom.
(No, but seriously, it's a well known fact that people tend to do things just because they've always done them before. That's why we have conservatives.)|||All of the quoted statements in the OP seem extremely basic.
You could look at it the other way as well. Whenever someone comes up with his/her epic new and shiny concept of what the must have gadget of yesteryear should've been, it'll likely be dismissed due to the basic human nature of wanting safety. Most people will dismiss ideas differing from the norm unless given tangible proof of its superiority to the norm. Is that really something which needs to be proven today?|||Well creative ideas is a pretty vague term...
Remember those creative builds your PUGmates used to run back when people still played GW?
On the other hand, I love ceative ideas as long as they're also good ideas.|||Yeah.
Sometimes 1+1=2 is best. 0.5+0.25+0.25+0.75+0.25 = 2 is certainly creative, but not necessarily better.
However, everything bears looking into and at least proven or disproven. Being closed-minded for the sake of tradition is a dead end.|||Funny that the general consensus I get from you guys is to say that the old stuff is tested and safe. But eh, you could... I don't know... test the new stuff before adopting it?
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