It's fascinating how often tales of creative effort seem to be incomplete.
I read just today about Mr Colt and his famous revolver. But the blogger says, essentially, that the creative idea wasn't his, he just developed a design used in the Indian Army.
I say "just" possibly unjustly; development is no easy matter. No doubt the development itself was full of creative acts. But the first order acts, to wit the identification of the problem (introducing a suitable pistol for horsemen) and the start of its solution (the revolver principle) had already been accomplished.
Once a whole civilisation begins to throw up acts of creativity, their interactions must become very hard to disentangle.
I guess this adds one more reason why creatives aren't always liked very much. Identifying problems, but no solutions, will be viewed as mere 'complaining' by non-creatives.
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It's fascinating how often tales of creative effort seem to be incomplete.
I read just today about Mr Colt and his famous revolver. But the blogger says, essentially, that the creative idea wasn't his, he just developed a design used in the Indian Army.
I say "just" possibly unjustly; development is no easy matter. No doubt the development itself was full of creative acts. But the first order acts, to wit the identification of the problem (introducing a suitable pistol for horsemen) and the start of its solution (the revolver principle) had already been accomplished.
Once a whole civilisation begins to throw up acts of creativity, their interactions must become very hard to disentangle.
I guess this adds one more reason why creatives aren't always liked very much. Identifying problems, but no solutions, will be viewed as mere 'complaining' by non-creatives.
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