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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Chris.
Categories: Chris.

1. Someday, students may choose to run their own classes.
Oh wait, that’s today.

2. Somewhere (I can’t remember where), I read that caffeine can reduce creativity because it increases focus, and creativity requires free association:

In psychology books, the talent for taking two unrelated concepts and finding connections between them is called associative ability. In his book Creativity in Science: Change, Logic, Genius, and Zeitgeist, Dean Simonton points out that “persons with low associative barriers may think to connect ideas or concepts that have very little basis in past experience or that cannot easily be traced logically.” Read that last sentence again; it’s indistinguishable from various definitions of insanity.

-The Myths of Innovation, p.13

So imagine developing two drugs: One for sane people to increase their creativity by making them more insane. One for insane people to increase their sanity by making them less creative.

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