Personality Lecture #19

[balupton (Benjamin Lupton)]

Discussion thread for Personality and Its Transformations - Lecture #19

study group discussion

Discussion as part of our Study Group.

2017-10-28: Personality #19

topic discussion notes Creativity and Pole Vaulting metaphor Creativity and Collaboration Retirement is also like Motherhood - careers that are not the paid workforce Options for an automated future that eliminates lower IQs into forced retirement Regressions Genocide Revolution Against the Upper Class Against the Machines Socialism (smaller and smaller contributor base) Consumer class grows larger Producer class grows smaller Only a matter of time until…

[balupton (Benjamin Lupton)]

my notes

• 0:00 - conservatives higher in orderliness (also correlated with immune system), both conservatives and liberals move on industriousness

• 3:30 - Slide - Intellect versus Openness

  • Intellect

    • Working memory

      • Kaufman, S. B. , DeYoung, C.h., Gray, J.R., Jimenez, L., Brown, J., & Mackintosh, N. J. (2010). Implicit learning as an ability. Cognition, 116, 321-340

  • Openness

    • Divergent thinking

    • Associated with implicit learning

      • Unconscious detection of patterns

• 7:20 - for something to be creative, it has to be novel/originality/divergent (opposite of probable) and useful (useful to many, or very useful to one)

  • Creative thinking

  • Creative achievement

    • 11:00 - Slide - Creative Achievement Questionnaire, cont 24:15, 27:25

• 11:00 to 18:00 - rant on creativity

• 18:00 - people who are creative, continue being creative, and if you break through the glass ceiling with a radical success, then the Pareto distribution throws you ahead

• 24:00 - what to give a publisher

• 29:00 - what you produce, must be their 1st or second priority in needs, otherwise they will never bother, nor care enough, nor pay enough

• 31:00 - Price’s Law - as your company grows, incompetence grows exponentially, and competence grows linearly - the square root of your employees are doing half the work - don’t accidentally fire the top 100 employees, or have them leave to other opportunities, as otherwise 1900 are left, which only did half the work, yet cost dramatically more

  • Did anyone find the reference/paper on this? I couldn’t….

• 34:00 - as you play monopoly (any trading game) the chance of winning increases linearly, and the chance of losing increases exponentially - also the differences between players magnify their spreads across time - fortune 500 companies typically last only 30 years

• 38:00 - creative people are hard to evaluate

• 39:00 - Slide - CAQ

  • 40:00 - great artists can judge other artists

  • 43:00 - creative people also have higher rates of psychosis

• 44:30 - Slide - Creativity and Mortality - Terror Management