{"id":25832,"date":"2011-12-16T16:43:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T21:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=25832"},"modified":"2011-12-16T16:43:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T21:43:47","slug":"25832","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/12\/16\/25832\/","title":{"rendered":"Why people secretly fear creative ideas [psyblog]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why people secretly fear creative ideas<\/strong><\/a> — from psyblog<\/p>\n

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Why creative ideas are often rejected in favour of conformity and uniformity.<\/em><\/div>\n

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People don’t like to feel uncertain; it’s an aversive state that generally we try to escape from. Unfortunately creativity requires uncertainty by definition, because we’re trying to do something that hasn’t been done before.<\/p>\n

People deal with the disconnect by saying one thing, “Creativity is good, we want more of it!” but actually rejecting creative ideas for being impractical.<\/p>\n

And, the more uncertain people feel, the harder they find it to recognise a truly creative idea. So as a society we end up sticking our heads in the sand and carrying on doing the same old things we’ve been doing all along, just to avoid feeling uncertain.<\/p>\n

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— Originally saw this at Innovation yes, but not here please<\/strong> <\/a>
\nfrom The Corridor of Uncertainty by Alastair Creelman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why people secretly fear creative ideas — from psyblog . Why creative ideas are often rejected in favour of conformity and uniformity.   Excerpt: People don’t like to feel uncertain; it’s an aversive state that generally we try to escape from. Unfortunately creativity requires uncertainty by definition, because we’re trying to do something that hasn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,287,180,101,480],"tags":[702,711,661,621,792],"class_list":["post-25832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-europe","category-innovation","category-psychology","category-society","tag-creativity","tag-europe","tag-innovation","tag-psychology","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25836,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25832\/revisions\/25836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}