Pondering Creativity
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Anyway a thread on where creativity comes from caught my eye so I went to the Scientific American site and gave it a read.
I was taken with the notion of the "interconnectedness of society, enabling us to connect and share more" as a root causation of the creative process and recall from my own youth how reading numerous sets of encylopedias instilled within me not only that fantasy world which was the chagrin of my early adulthood ...
but that creative flair which has seen me through the innumerable projects I have undertaken over the years with mostly success — and a few failures thrown in there as well.
The crux of that which struck me most was the thought that I might truly be a product of society given my distinctly unsocial nature and all of the solitary hours I log to this day.
But had I been some social butterfly pursuant of parties and popularity I dare say that I would have been significantly less successful than I am right now for in that crucible which exists between the ears of a person the one thing that never failed me is my natural ability to tackle a problem with a satisfactory algorithm even though my cohorts might not have a clue as to how the coding works or where it ultimately goes aside from that end result with which they operate.
Maybe I did learn somewhat more over the years than I give my education credit for imparting.