Attached Link: Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike [NYTimes]

Today's online NYTimes (12/30/2007) included an interesting article
on thought and innovation. 

Please comment. 

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Martin

Ha! yes! I recommend to you the poem "The calf path" by Sam Foss. Todays NYTimes article is not a new thought. I am no good at computer speak but when I googled this poem I got http://holyjoe.net/foss3.htm. 

Please use this link to read "The Calf Path". 

Sounds like the NJ DOT. 

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Martin

It's an interesting read, but the focus is, IMO, too much on the business world. Not entirely surprising, mind you, given that the article appears in the "Business" section. But as a general statement about creativity and how ideas are created and communicated it falls a bit short, viewed from where I sit. The experiment with the "tappers" is certainly interesting, but after starting with a rather broad and general statement the article fails (again IMO) to carry through and apply that broad statement in a broad context. Instead we get some general ideas and experiments presented to make a point about a rather specific field. And the way creativity works in the workplace is something I think can't be linked that easily to more general thoughts about creativity. Just compare the opening statement to the last few paragraphs of the article: At the end of the article there is nothing left about how creativity works in general, but only talk about specific contexts. As I said, I think it's an interesting read. But it falls short of providing what it pretends to be about in the opening paragraph. Unexpected twists and turns may be a staple of writing, but here it leaves me rather cold, and a bit disappointed.