Comments on: Looking Inside the Fishbowl of Creativity http://www.creativeintensive.org/2007/10/14/looking-inside-the-fishbowl-of-creativity/ Ideas that Inspire Creativity Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:32:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Christopher Richards http://www.creativeintensive.org/2007/10/14/looking-inside-the-fishbowl-of-creativity/#comment-667 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:00:28 +0000 http://www.creativeintensive.org/2007/10/14/looking-inside-the-fishbowl-of-creativity/#comment-667 I think we really need to take into account that the studies were done on students by educational establishments. Both groups, tend toward conformity. If studies were done on intelligent people who did not feel they wanted to be caged by the strictures of academia, then the results may be more meaningful. Think about highly creative intelligent people like Patrick Leigh Fermor, Gore Vidal, and Bill Gates. These exceptionally creative people never went to college. I think we really need to take into account that the studies were done on students by educational establishments. Both groups, tend toward conformity. If studies were done on intelligent people who did not feel they wanted to be caged by the strictures of academia, then the results may be more meaningful.

Think about highly creative intelligent people like Patrick Leigh Fermor, Gore Vidal, and Bill Gates. These exceptionally creative people never went to college.

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