Crazy Wisdom
How to balance intuition with the intellect?
- reading
- models
- stress
- mental
- Creativity
About this episode
Just interviewed @kylebrussell about his thoughts on the relationship between stress and creativity. This was one of my favorite interviews. His reading and the way he uses the knowledge he gains from reading is truly astonishing. Insights as follows.
Mental models: best way to learn is to see how the mental models of others have failed or succeeded and then update your own mental model based on that. There are drawbacks to only playing with mental models. This is where intuition comes in.
Intuition can be trained. Intuition can be balanced by checking intuition against the intellect. It's a process between weighing both of these and adapting the feedback from what happens back into the mental model and training intuition. System 1 and system 2 from D Kahneman.
Two general types of creativity with overlap include business person and artiste. A business person is motivated to solve large problems due to external motivations such as legacy and status. They build and buy into a narrative that they are the ones to solve this huge problem.
Artiste is motivated by an internal motivation to express that which is inside them. They are tortured by their un expressed creativity and must manifest it into reality. @theartistsway is a great book.
Artistes are often uncomfortable with the things that they do that don't conform to the status quo. Yet this is what they have to offer the world. So the process of the artiste is to become comfortable with that which sets them apart.Episode transcript
I think intellectual folks, folks who think about these things tend to try to, like, memorize all the kinds of fallacies and biases. And honestly, the easier way to do this, and it's funny because this is in itself like a heuristic that cuts off a lot of complexity, is basically just to remember that when looking at something, most people either want to find something in particular or do not want to find something. And so just, you know, to check yourself and go, you know, this answer that I landed on, is there some reason why I would have been inclined to like that answer?
Hi, my name is Stuart Alsop, and this is my podcast, Crazy Wisdom, where I interview creative people about how they work with and manage the stress that is inherent in creative work. What I've realized over the past 10 years of my research is that anybody who is creating something of value that is significantly different from what has come before is considered crazy. Most of us have a fear, an ingrained fear of going crazy. So what I'm saying is grab onto that fear, realize that it's there, and just go with it. Because the problems we're going to be facing over the next 20 years require crazy people in order to solve them. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. My guest here is Kyle Russell, who does partnerships at Skydio and used to be at AZ16 and TechCrunch. And we're here to talk about the relationship between stress and creativity. And Kyle has some amazing things to say about how reading helps him solve problems. So could you go over that three step process you were just talking about?
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