Want to be creative? Stop trying hard

I just read AI 2027. If you want to go out, you must check it. The long and short is that Amnesty International It is possible that many aspects of our lives will be much closer to what most of us believe.

But what can never be assumed is our humanity, while we still have. A long time ago, humans have narrated stories. They created art and gathered around fires to communicate with each other. They created a meaning from a world that has no meaning in some cases through common beliefs and religions.

In short, humans are creative.

The ability to draw, paint or write “the best” of us lacks the goal of the reason for humans to do these things for more than 50,000 years. creativity We keep going and linking us.

What can AI teach us about creativity?

For this reason, I was particularly taken with the computer world Kenneth Stanley. through Nervous The networks program, discovered that among the “unorganized chaos” options, the people who interacted with its computer program presented high art.

Basically, we click on one of 15 random abstract images called “BLOBS”. After that, based on the ones they chose, they were presented with 15 other photos that were the descendants of the first image. This process continued until the users surprised themselves by creating concrete images such as cars, people or landscapes. Consider, these were not deliberate masterpieces. Participants only click on one of 15 pictures over and over again without any feeling with a pre -defined goal.

Improvisation

For my money, this improvisation. With theatrical improvisation, the players do not know how the scene will appear. They only have to focus on the options of moment to another and the scene reveals itself (often in sudden ways) as they go.

The improvisation algorithm is the face of each other’s options. If my partner says in the scene, I am a plumb, then I am a plumb. If I say that I am here to fix the pelvis, this is what happens.

The moment one of us begins to “play the end of the scene” is the moment when we miss these clues from the moment to the regular around the place where the scene wants to take. This is the kiss of death for improvisation.

appearance

This creation for the moment to another is a kind of appearance. No one is responsible. Nobody announces a kind of final result. The complexity of the system appears from the random options we make together. These options accumulate and create a complex system in the end (a fully certain scene) better than if we had previously set it.

What Amnesty International, improvisation, and the appearance that can teach us about creativity?

For me, this is all good news for humans and creativity. If our being human means that we are creative for ourselves and for direct anger, then there is no need to worry about where we go or why we do this or if it is good. We just need to focus on the next step.

Stop trying hard to create the next masterpiece. Instead, draw a line.

Stop trying to write the following great American novel. Write a sentence.

Stop trying to produce a Grammy Award -winning album. Add some cowboy.

The creative process has become mired in ConsumptionThe brand, and the expansion that we lost from part of the creativity that actually makes us a human being. The part we trust in our intestine and choose a small option. Then another and another. The part in which we are surprised and delight ourselves with how to follow everything. The part in which we stop trying to try and start to be really creative.