{"id":123413,"date":"2021-06-04T16:52:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/creative-thinking-in-both-science-and-the-arts-is-not-for-the-faint-of-heart"},"modified":"2021-06-04T16:52:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:52:36","slug":"creative-thinking-in-both-science-and-the-arts-is-not-for-the-faint-of-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/creative-thinking-in-both-science-and-the-arts-is-not-for-the-faint-of-heart","title":{"rendered":"Creative Thinking in both Science and the Arts Is Not for the Faint of Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/creative-thinking-in-both-science-and-the-arts-is-not-for-the-faint-of-heart.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both arts and sciences advance through open-minded iterations. The alternative of staying within traditional boundaries suppresses the exploration of new territories. As Oscar Wilde said: \u201c<a href=\" https:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/oscar_wilde_101035\">Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing the crucial role that imagination plays in advancing both arts and sciences would translate to a culture that fosters innovation by rewarding creativity. Conventional groupthink could be circumvented by populating selection committees of funding agencies with creative individuals rather than with traditional thinkers. A culture of innovation would also benefit from <a href=\" https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41599-019-0308-8\">overlap spaces<\/a> where scientists and artists interact. In deriving his theory of gravity Albert Einstein was inspired by the philosopher <a href=\" https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ernst_Mach\">Ernst Mach<\/a>, and Einstein\u2019s new notions of space and time <a href=\" https:\/\/physicstoday.scitation.org\/doi\/10.1063\/1.1445548\">inspired<\/a> <a href=\" https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pablo_Picasso\">Picasso<\/a>\u2019s paintings.<\/p>\n<p>Creativity in arts and sciences establishes a backdrop for human existence, as the content it invents gives pleasure and meaning to our lives. The human act of creation is an <a href=\" https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/science-is-an-infinite-sum-game\/\">infinite-sum game<\/a>, from which all of us benefit. And we can all participate in the creative process, as long as we follow Wilde\u2019s advice: \u201c<a href=\" https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/19884-be-yourself-everyone-else-is-already-taken\">Be yourself; everyone else is already taken<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both arts and sciences advance through open-minded iterations. The alternative of staying within traditional boundaries suppresses the exploration of new territories. As Oscar Wilde said: \u201cConsistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.\u201d Recognizing the crucial role that imagination plays in advancing both arts and sciences would translate to a culture that fosters innovation by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}