People and Creativity

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    This post is addressed to those young Habra residents who present their future in approximately the following order:
    • writing new code
    • organization of own company,
    • much money.

    Life often infringes or refutes youthful expectations.

    No, you will definitely get something valuable - life is structured in such a way that not one of its participants is left without a reward - but what exactly will become a life prize is not for you to decide. You should not be under the illusion that you should not receive what is destined for you in any way.


    After a cheerful introduction, I get down to business.
    According to my many years of observation, people in relation to their creative potential are divided into three distinct groups:
    1. not inclined to creativity,
    2. those at an intermediate stage from a non-creative person to a creative one,
    3. creators.

    Consider the creative opportunities and life prospects of the representatives of these groups on the example of people with technical education - IT specialists.

    I type. Creativity close to zero


    The professional path of people of the first type depends more on external circumstances than on internal predisposition.

    If they are programmers, they while away working hours at the computer, being content with communicating with their own kind and increasing their internal self-esteem by asserting that the boss is a goat (which, by the way, is completely true, since all bosses are goats by definition). If statements about the authorities have not reached the goat ears, they can make a career. There are no restrictions on career growth: the absence of a creative beginning in the nature allows one to be flexible and resourceful, which is what is required for bureaucratic work.

    But by the way, he will reach the degrees known, because now they love the wordless.
    A.S. Griboedov.


    Many, with a healthy adventurism and firmness of character, are served as businessmen. I have repeatedly observed representatives of the first type becoming businessmen. They were all characterized by the slogan “Do as I do”: as a rule, they watched the commercial successes of their acquaintance, friend, relative and, upon reflection, took up the same business. Exactly for the same one, because people of the first type are categorically not able to give out the original idea, at least in the business sphere. When deciding to do business, they, like a monkey in a cage, parodied the movements of an external object and suddenly - who would have thought? - their business went-go-go-go-go-go ... It turned out fine in the end.

    In the IT industry, a more common option, due to the obvious difficulties of copying a business, is to hire an existing company as a specialist or top manager. I’ve never understood the joy of children about working in large companies, in which you are, by definition, the sixth gear of the general mechanism and can’t do anything other than entrust you with prone to moronity bosses. And others like nothing. But this is a word.

    The peculiarity of people of the first type is the overestimation of their own creative potential, actually zero. They are cool specialists, in administrative positions, and you throw such accusations against them! .. How dare you? .. Yes, they have vast practical experience, they are fluent in such and such programming language, they personally mastered such and such systems , they work in such and such a powerful team and, together with other luminaries, are implementing such and such (funded by third-party investors) promising project. And you ... Who are you, actually? .. And your article, don’t understand what, so go to the forest, dear author!

    If you sincerely do not understand what I mean, then most likely belong to the first, very common type.

    Although I do not detract at all from the merits of this group and responsibly declare that intelligence does not correlate with creativity. You can be a non-creative intellectual, or you can be a silly creator, remember the laughter of the divine Mozart from the movie "Amadeus". To each his own.

    II type. Creative makings are underdeveloped


    The professional career of specialists of the second type is similar to that considered above, with the difference that these people tend to - more often on a subconscious level - the desire for creative work.

    It is not enough that the work is dustless, respected and paid - you want it to please. However, joy is not always achievable: how can one enjoy life when traveling to an alternative place of work is twenty minutes longer and the vacation is not three weeks, but only two? A week of vacation is not a trifle, as you understand. And at a lower wage, you don’t have to decide which company to choose, so the phrase “But you really have to earn money?” Representatives of the second type have their favorite self-justification.

    So, in an unceasing longing for high, life passes. People indistinguishable from representatives of the first type are sitting at their computers, doing unnecessary work, like representatives of other types call bosses goats, and in their eyes an unearthly longing.

    When the creative breaks out, the representatives of the second type allow themselves to take ill-considered actions that never will be created by uncreative personalities: they do something “for the soul” in the evenings, begin to perform professional duties “as needed”, and not according to the high authorities, or quit altogether From the job.

    I come to work on Friday, I send bosses in the ass.
    A. Galich.


    If people of the second type are businessmen, they can throw a small amount to the wind. However, the courage to do what the soul initially lies in, and there is always not enough money for charity, and the status quo is gradually recovering.

    From the hopelessness of existence, people with insufficient creative inclinations sometimes climb into a loop, which is never found in representatives of the first type, who calmly navigate in the surrounding economic environment and are not prone to suicide.

    III type. Creator


    The rarest type.

    However, I lie: rare in creative activity, and in relation to other realities of life more than common. Take, for example, women who are also naturally programmed for known purposes, and as a result cannot succeed in art or science. It is foolish to demand creative inspiration where thoughts hover around preparing dinner or upcoming cleaning. Exceptions - cases where women become major scientists (Sofia Kovalevskaya) or writers (Margaret Mitchell) - are, but they only confirm the general rule.

    And please, do not try to disprove the female destiny on the example of a business woman: this breed, which has spread nowadays, testifies to the completely creative nature of any administrative activity.

    Any normal woman is drawn to childbearing and household chores, just like a third type of person is drawn to creativity, and this force is irresistible. The creative principle is so prevailing in character that it is not possible to resist: literally drags a person through life, like a weak-willed puppet, contrary to his own will and external circumstances.

    People of the third type are fanatics, in the most precise and highest sense of the word.

    If external circumstances are against them, creative people turn into losers, spending months in the development of nobody understands and, as a consequence, nobody needs concepts or program codes. If on the part of people of the second type they can count on cautious understanding and even carefully concealed envy - not by their social position, of course, but by the fact that a person spits on his surroundings, finding the strength to do what he loves, then representatives of the first type consider such working people outright idiots. Non-creative people will never understand how - simply because you are programmed for such classes, born for this - you can do something openly unprofitable for yourself.

    Only in rare situations, with a successful combination of circumstances, can creative natures realize themselves in economic terms. People of art have a happy outcome more often due to the fact that writers, musicians, artists require a minimum of investment in professional activities.

    Erica takes four copies. That’s all, but that’s enough.
    And Galich.


    Scientists, especially modern ones, are heavier: they, unlike medieval predecessors, need laboratories and equipment. Since it is not possible to engage in scientific activity at one’s expense, one has to work in teams in which a lot of uncreative rabble is accumulating, which is trying to dictate to the scientist what to do, etc. etc. Although it is so easy to separate the grains from the chaff, you just need to figure out what a person would do if he did not pay his salary (but provided that he did not starve to death): the scientist would continue his studies, while a non-creative person would increase his social "Rating" in a different way. Creative people are also often programmed, just not for the scientific activities that we are discussing now, but for something else,

    In exceptional situations, people of the third type can count on positions. For example, you have been raving astronautics since childhood and you graduated from the corresponding faculty, and here the party and government are set up: to show America to Kuzkin’s mother in the field of space achievements. For such a thing, you can also get a research institute at its disposal (staffed, as usual, with specialists of the first and second types. However, the availability of a creative director at a scientific institution is already good: there are chances for success). But until the corresponding directive has been received, stay in Kaluga and do not rock the boat.

    Thus, the invention of something visionary and ahead of time is not a guarantee of demand, but rather the opposite. Failure to understand this fact leads people of the third type to despair and suicide.

    In fact, everything is not so gloomy, because as a result of creative activity a person receives something else - harmony pouring down on him from heaven. Creative people themselves do not invent or invent anything, but are the vehicles of the divine plan. This is never understood by the representatives of the first type and it is extremely difficult to feel the representatives of the second.

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    Which of the following types do you consider yourself to be?

    • 9.5% I type 31
    • 57.2% II type 186
    • 23% III type 75
    • 10.1% I am a woman 33

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