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Reading 🏭 'Psychological Origins of the Industrial Revolution' ❝…some of these psychological traits…are likely to increase the rate of innovation❞ 📄 cambridge.org/core/services/ (pdf) See what others are tweeting 🐦 twitter.com/search?f=tweet I'm quite intrigued by this chart:

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Is this chart suggesting a high positive correlation on each side of the column? Intriguing, if so.

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Good question! The chart is intriguing to me since my mind immediately began spinning off tangential thoughts likely unrelated to the actual paper content.

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That seems to be how your mind works with everything. A fascinating property.

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I had a friend who often wondered why progress was so slow. His go-to example was of a water droplet on a leaf, how it clearly magnified what was under it & yet this quality seemingly unexploited for millennia

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A huge question, surely. Clearly it has something to do with iteration and the need for intermediary steps. But only something.

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Didn't JBP claim that the median person has never done a single creative endeavor in his or her life? Like write a story, compose a song, paint a painting?

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His "median person" has been so thoroughly brutalized by school, it is hard to say how it would look otherwise. But it's certainly a real phenomenon, yes. Depending on how you define creativity.

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I don't find it much of a stretch to suggest that an egoic self, strongly maintained, is a constant creative endeavour. Easy to see how this could exhaust a median person's already-brutalized creative capacity.

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I also read a tweet recently that pointed out how few tweets are actually required to for a complete novel. Weird to think I may have written enough for that on here alone.

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I think we are designed, naturally and programatically, to cede a majority of our personality formation to our tribe. Absent that, say under capitalistic hyperattenuation of individuality, existential exhaustion is a very real threat. It's too damned tiring.

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Having to "be" someone all the time is a constant tax on the part of your mind best suited to creative output. I think the absurd creative capabilities that often show up in tandem with derealization and depersonalization are at least tangentially related.

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