What IS Creativity?

All I can say is 💥Boom💥 this one goes right for it Linda!

For anyone who read my three part series on When The Gatekeepers Fail Us when I tracked how we got to the LLM model and why it will never be what some are trying to tell us it is (I won’t mention anyone specific at Wired)—Let’s return to where it all actually begins: With Us!

Is it learned? When do we learn it? How do we learn it? So he gathered 1600 children aged 4 and 5 of all life circumstances, rich and poor, boys and girls, of various race, religion and ethnicity and tested their creativity.

98% of those kids scored off the charts, at “creative genius” levels.

He was stunned.

So he decided to turn it into a longitudinal study. Follow those kids into adulthood and see what becomes of them. At age 10, only 30% of those kids still scored at the creative genius level. By age 15, the number was 12%. And as adults? 2%.

Here’s the first part of my dive into the same topic, based upon my very personal experience of being there along the way

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