I was looking through some articles on dopamine and creativity and found some interesting titbits.
It is interesting to re-frame creativity as a creative drive and then as a drive to communicate. Having a strong urge to share an idea or impression, to relate, to make contact... I like the idea of struggling to communicate something and coming up with creative means to do so.
This reminds me of a quote from Voltaire:
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (not that I speak, read, or write French any better than a three year old)
The best is the enemy of the good.
I have adopted this quote as a guiding precept. With enough quantity, possibly there may be some quality.
This idea is discussed in one of these papers.
Notes from
1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2571074/?tool=pmcentrez
Creative drive is not identical to skill—the latter depends more on neocortical association areas. However, drive correlates better with successful creative output than skill does.
For the purposes of this paper, a creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful (or influential) in a particular social setting (Perkins, 1988; Csikszentmihalyi, 1999). The definition captures the cultural relativity of creativity (using a lever to move a rock might be judged novel in a Cro-Magnon civilization, but not in a modern one), and it also captures the distinction between the creative and the merely eccentric or mentally ill (novelty without utility).
...creative drive has the advantage of being a simpler, more tractable phenomenon than creativity itself. Creative drive links to better understood systems, such as the drive to communicate...
2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4041074/
...judging from the visual details depicted by the artists and the quantity of works they produce, some researchers have argued that the art has a strong obsessive-compulsive feature (Finkelstein et al., 1991; Lythgoe et al., 2005; Chatterjee, 2006; Schott, 2012; Midorikawa and Kawamura, 2014).
It is interesting to re-frame creativity as a creative drive and then as a drive to communicate. Having a strong urge to share an idea or impression, to relate, to make contact... I like the idea of struggling to communicate something and coming up with creative means to do so.
This reminds me of a quote from Voltaire:
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (not that I speak, read, or write French any better than a three year old)
The best is the enemy of the good.
I have adopted this quote as a guiding precept. With enough quantity, possibly there may be some quality.
This idea is discussed in one of these papers.
Notes from
1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2571074/?tool=pmcentrez
Creative drive is not identical to skill—the latter depends more on neocortical association areas. However, drive correlates better with successful creative output than skill does.
For the purposes of this paper, a creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful (or influential) in a particular social setting (Perkins, 1988; Csikszentmihalyi, 1999). The definition captures the cultural relativity of creativity (using a lever to move a rock might be judged novel in a Cro-Magnon civilization, but not in a modern one), and it also captures the distinction between the creative and the merely eccentric or mentally ill (novelty without utility).
...creative drive has the advantage of being a simpler, more tractable phenomenon than creativity itself. Creative drive links to better understood systems, such as the drive to communicate...
2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4041074/
...judging from the visual details depicted by the artists and the quantity of works they produce, some researchers have argued that the art has a strong obsessive-compulsive feature (Finkelstein et al., 1991; Lythgoe et al., 2005; Chatterjee, 2006; Schott, 2012; Midorikawa and Kawamura, 2014).
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