<story><title>Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (2015)</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/why-creativity-is-a-numbers-game/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vezycash</author><text>&amp;gt;creative greatness appears to be doing things differently&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve done things differently just out of boredom caused by doing a task, the same way repeatedly.&lt;p&gt;Example: I sometimes get tired of a particular food and tweak it by adding a new ingredient or eating it with something different.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Edison was unlucky—he failed to invent fuel cells. The first comercially successful fuel cells were developed in the mid-twentieth century, long after Edison moved on to pursuing other ideas. 
&amp;gt;Edison always had somewhere to channel his efforts whenever he ran into temporary obstacles&lt;p&gt;This is completely different from the &amp;quot;Edison never gave up and kept working till he succeeded&amp;quot; talks.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (2015)</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/why-creativity-is-a-numbers-game/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sysbin</author><text>I view humans in a universe like a computer program that brute-forces to find a better solution. You can have some people do everything right and nothing ever works out for them. While you can have the opposite happen. The anomalies&amp;#x2F;survivorship bias gets the most media attention and keeps the rat race going. Sometimes this makes me think the universe is just the outcome of brute-forcing as well.</text></comment>