Nootropics can be used to define natural categories of work
For eg Adderall can make you more productive, your work is not really creative work
Much more useful definition than “information work” or “creative class”
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Erdös begs to disagree. Quit amphetamines for a month on a challenge — after he won, “you’ve set mathematics back by a month!” Hard to say abstract math isn’t creative. OOTH, I think you’re probably right in the median.
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Though it may be that one is naturally good at creativity, but just can't concentrate well enough to get the most out of it.
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My therapist suggested something the other day that resonated...
I can be very creative, and I can be very logical, I just have a lot of trouble integrating the two. It's a recipe for making no progress.
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This is the most unique gate keeping I’ve seen in a long time! Many creative works need toil over a long time, from sculpture to cooking, and even more need long attention to experiment with subjects, contexts and their forms & bindings.







