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It\u2019s remarkable to watch a five-year-old draw, void of any anxiety about what the world will think. We all start our lives creatively confident, happy to create and share our work with pride. And then, as we age, our comfort with creative expression declines. We\u2019re discouraged by the learning curve of creative skills and tools, by our tendency to compare ourselves to others, and by the harsh opinions of critics. As Picasso famously quipped, \u201cAll children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.\u201d It is a sad irony: As we age, our creative capabilities (and opportunities!) grow as we collect life experiences that inspire us \u2014 but our creative confidence shrinks. We are more creatively confident in kindergarten than we are as adults. Correcting this is among the greatest opportunities for the next generation of humankind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, we\u2019re entering an era that changes everything.<\/strong> A few critical technology breakthroughs and fundamentally more accessible platforms are changing everything. From free web-based tools with templates that help conquer the fear of the blank screen to powerful generative artificial intelligence that conjures up anything from a text prompt, expressing yourself creatively no longer requires climbing creativity\u2019s notoriously steep learning curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Most of those who have succeeded in life can trace their success back to the essential education they obtained from parents, teachers and\/ or friends.<\/strong><\/p>\nT-Ralph Olaniyi<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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People from communities of color are underrepresented in publishing. Our books make up less than six percent of the titles released each year, and that\u2019s despite a century of fighting against the gatekeepers. The results of this systematic exclusion are clear: we are also elided from the national conversation, starting in elementary school. Those who live in this country are trained by textbooks, libraries, classrooms, TV, and cinema to see US life as almost exclusively white. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Death of Creativity\u2019s Learning Curve<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
\nThere is so much else to praise<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
Welcome to an era in which the friction between an idea, and creatively expressing that idea, is removed. Whether it is as an image, an essay, an animated story, or even a video, you can simply talk about what you see in your mind\u2019s eye and get immediate visual output. \u201cBut that\u2019s not real creativity!\u201d some may exclaim. Until now, \u201ccreativity\u201d has conflated both the generation of ideas and the process involved to express those ideas. Is the process of intricately chiseling a beautiful sculpture creative, or is the idea of the sculpture \u2014 the image conjured up in the mind\u2019s eye \u2014 the truly creative part of an otherwise laborious and tedious process? <\/em>It\u2019s an age-old argument. Michelangelo, for instance, believed that each stone has a statue inside it and the sculptor discovers it by chipping away. At the same time, the great master employed as many as 13 assistants to help him paint the Sistine Chapel. So, it\u2019s complicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most artists today can\u2019t afford 13 human assistants, but they use other tools to reduce the laborious parts of creativity, including AI-powered shortcuts, component libraries for product designers, templates, and now generative AI. This latest breakthrough has elicited both fanfare and fear because of its ability to conjure up an original piece of media based solely on a text prompt. Conceptually, it\u2019s like a roomful of inexperienced interns who instantly present you with endless renditions of whatever you describe. Most of what they present will be wrong, but you may get some stuff to work with and, occasionally, something novel will catch your eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s remarkable to watch a five-year-old draw, void of any anxiety about what the world will think. We all start our lives creatively confident, happy to create and share our work with pride. And then, as we age, our comfort with creative expression declines. We\u2019re discouraged by the learning curve of creative skills and tools, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[41,44,46],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-people","tag-thinking","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaakriedy.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaakriedy.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaakriedy.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaakriedy.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaakriedy.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alaakriedy.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/alaakriedy.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaakriedy.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaakriedy.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaakriedy.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaakriedy.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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