The largest Russian specialist in the field of the theory of consciousness, Professor Tatiana Chernigovskaya, spoke about the dangers that lie in wait for a creative, thinking outside the box. According to her, the label "fool" is hung on such a child already at school, trying to force him to think "like everyone else."
Many creative people say that insights come unexpectedly, during routine actions that have nothing to do with the problem being solved: I watch TV, read a book - and suddenly I have this connection that has not appeared for a long time! The history of science shows that a discovery cannot be planned, except for technical advances (a computer can also make them), and ideas come to mind when a person is completely unprepared for this.
Generally speaking, for creativity it is necessary to remove cognitive control and not be afraid of mistakes. Mistakes are great. And who can say what a mistake is?
Not thinking "like everyone else" or the problems of creative children
Independence of thinking is a very important quality. There is a well-known expression - "Think different"
Creative people learn on their own and start doing it very early. They never consider their unusual ideas, their discoveries to be something extraordinary. This is the most common and obvious thing for them. They often do not understand what, in fact, is their merit, if everything is so obvious. Obviously THEM …
Such people, as a rule, have trouble at school, most of them are smarter than teachers. They certainly don't know what the teachers know, but they can be smarter. And therefore they find themselves in a very difficult situation, being under the pressure of society.
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I had a colleague, a pediatric therapist, he told the following story. One boy - a total poor at school, sitting at home, being seven years old, invented the steam engine. And he not only invented it, but collected it.
Imagine: a steam engine running on sunflower oil, splashing this hottest oil, rushes around the apartment! At the same time, everyone considers the boy a fool.
So creative people lead their lives in tough competition.
Why read
To develop, you need to read complex literature. Linear reading is important - from start to finish. Hypertext, forcing to click on the highlighted word and, as it were, fall into it, generates discord in thought.
People who have grown up on this type of reading are unable to read a large text in its entirety. They have a ragged consciousness - something from here, from there. When you ask a child what this story was about, he cannot retell it to you.
Scientists' predictions about the future of reading are non-optimistic - they predict a serious split between the capabilities of the intellectual elite and the bulk of the world's population.
But if children only engage in comics, they will not develop not only an algorithm for reading complex literature that forms consciousness, but also an algorithm for complex thinking - they will only think which button to press to bring you a hamburger.
The brain is plastic not only in childhood, as previously thought. It has been proven that it forms new neural connections until the end of life. Any work other than boring and routine work is beneficial for the brain. The main thing is to deal with constantly changing, complex information.
Tatiana Vladimirovna Chernigovskaya