john2
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The pill goes along these lines...
You're either born a genius with supernatural amounts of talent and bravura, or you just aren't. That's it.
Naturally... geniuses are born, not made.
I've compiled my long essay in short segments with spoilers. Take your time and read the whole thing if you're going to read.
TLDR -
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You're either born a genius with supernatural amounts of talent and bravura, or you just aren't. That's it.
Naturally... geniuses are born, not made.
I've compiled my long essay in short segments with spoilers. Take your time and read the whole thing if you're going to read.
Creativity is something infinitely more harder than discovery or mastering a pre-existing skill. Some common examples where high levels of creativity are required are art composition (painting something unique) and music composition (creating new harmonies, original melodies, etc.).
Talking about mastering pre-existing skills... it is easy to paint something you can see or draw a basic human figure. But painting something new, unseen and aesthetically pleasing is the hardest. No mount of practice will ever benefit you to truly think original. Again, in music. It is easy for anybody to pick up a violin or start learning the piano. it is easy for anybody to practice and master techniques or play fast with accuracy. But writing something for an instrument (or multiple) that is unique and addictive is near impossible for the majority of the population. In terms of mastering a skill (which falls in the discovery sub section)... it is easy to become a human calculator if you keep practicing every day. Anyone can do that till a certain extent... just like the fine artist or the virtuoso musician.
Talking about mastering pre-existing skills... it is easy to paint something you can see or draw a basic human figure. But painting something new, unseen and aesthetically pleasing is the hardest. No mount of practice will ever benefit you to truly think original. Again, in music. It is easy for anybody to pick up a violin or start learning the piano. it is easy for anybody to practice and master techniques or play fast with accuracy. But writing something for an instrument (or multiple) that is unique and addictive is near impossible for the majority of the population. In terms of mastering a skill (which falls in the discovery sub section)... it is easy to become a human calculator if you keep practicing every day. Anyone can do that till a certain extent... just like the fine artist or the virtuoso musician.
Stuff like discovery includes finding some law or principle that already exists within creation (like Newton's laws of gravity). And calculus or any other mathematical or scientific formula/solution system was discovered out of necessity. This world has absolutes and that's why certain things are fixed or constants.
And in the field of math and science (which lie fundamentally on discovery)... people will not be criticized for unoriginal thinking. In fact discovering new things requires you to study previously established works and use them as aid in a form of plagiarism. The total opposite happens in art.
Discovering something isn't really all of a "genius" thing since what you seek to find or have found has already been there. Creativity is the total opposite.
And in the field of math and science (which lie fundamentally on discovery)... people will not be criticized for unoriginal thinking. In fact discovering new things requires you to study previously established works and use them as aid in a form of plagiarism. The total opposite happens in art.
Discovering something isn't really all of a "genius" thing since what you seek to find or have found has already been there. Creativity is the total opposite.
When you are talking about art and music composition your creations are expected to value and balance these things in an appropriate way -
And this is where the blackpill about this entire issue comes in. The blackpill is that trying to consciously retain originality, coherency and aesthetic pleasureability will only make things worse for you.
It's counter-productive.
The fact that you have to "try" to do this automatically demonstrates that you just are not a genius. And there's a 99% chance that what you produce will either be bland, boring, not exciting and it will lack the ability to capture or invoke a certain human experience/emotion. To sum it up, your works/efforts will be easily forgotten in a few years...... even among those 'yes-men' who pitied on you for your "efforts".
- originality
- aesthetic/technical pleasureability and
- coherency (i.e., how much sense it makes to the general audience)
And this is where the blackpill about this entire issue comes in. The blackpill is that trying to consciously retain originality, coherency and aesthetic pleasureability will only make things worse for you.
It's counter-productive.
The fact that you have to "try" to do this automatically demonstrates that you just are not a genius. And there's a 99% chance that what you produce will either be bland, boring, not exciting and it will lack the ability to capture or invoke a certain human experience/emotion. To sum it up, your works/efforts will be easily forgotten in a few years...... even among those 'yes-men' who pitied on you for your "efforts".
The entire Olympus and technical magnitude of both discovery and creativity increases as time goes by. Let's talk about discovery first. Finding electricity was easy... but later on, after generations... building large scale electrical appliances became complex, yet achievable.
Now just imagine the same case for art and music... so much of music has already been discovered throughout the 16-20th centuries. So many masterpieces have been written. And this has happened till the point that modern musicians' music will sound plagiarized since there really aren't any more possibilities left. The only exception to this is none other than the genius or the prodigy.
Now just imagine the same case for art and music... so much of music has already been discovered throughout the 16-20th centuries. So many masterpieces have been written. And this has happened till the point that modern musicians' music will sound plagiarized since there really aren't any more possibilities left. The only exception to this is none other than the genius or the prodigy.
Everybody is familiar and most likely bored of that same old landscape scenery of a mountain or sea and the sun in the middle, lol. This is why modern art had to come into existence where painting new content and expressing yourself in a bizarre and original way was pushed in the early 1900s.
The same happened with music. "Twinkle-Twinkle little star" became a joke and more advanced yet exciting compositions needed to come into existence or else humanity would be stuck to simplicity and would have died out of boredom. Every normie knows about the simple 'C major, A minor, F major, G major' chord progression lol.
Mozart naturally had music in his head and it just flowed like water when he sat by the instrument to express it.
Child prodigies like Mozart or Samuel Barber didn't "try"..... it just naturally occurred and they succeeded.
Ever wondered why some piece of art or music just felt like it was meant to be "this way"... coherent and easily appealing at first glance? It's the work of a genius.
The same happened with music. "Twinkle-Twinkle little star" became a joke and more advanced yet exciting compositions needed to come into existence or else humanity would be stuck to simplicity and would have died out of boredom. Every normie knows about the simple 'C major, A minor, F major, G major' chord progression lol.
Mozart naturally had music in his head and it just flowed like water when he sat by the instrument to express it.
Child prodigies like Mozart or Samuel Barber didn't "try"..... it just naturally occurred and they succeeded.
Ever wondered why some piece of art or music just felt like it was meant to be "this way"... coherent and easily appealing at first glance? It's the work of a genius.
TLDR -
Creativity is much harder than discovery and should be given more credit than discovering something, at least imo.
Reminder that you'll never ever be a creative legend like Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo or Beethoven.
You'll be the same normie who'll have to either die trying to fake original and mind-blowing creativity...
or simply give up and cope with your existence in some other way... (most likely hedonism).
Reminder that you'll never ever be a creative legend like Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo or Beethoven.
You'll be the same normie who'll have to either die trying to fake original and mind-blowing creativity...
or simply give up and cope with your existence in some other way... (most likely hedonism).
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that was hard
