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| Economics writer Zubin Jelveh answers the burning questions like: How much are friendships worth? Why do men turn into daredevils around women? And do assassinations lead to democracy? ... |
Saturday, July 12, 2008 --- 48 days ago http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/odd-numbers/2008/07/11/the-life-cycle-of-fi
 David Galenson , Univeristy of Chicago economist and author of Old Masters and Young Geniuses , has studied the creative output of painters, writers, musicians, and poets. And he's boiled down the life cycles of these artists into the two archetypes in his book's title. Wired did a nice job summarizing the distinction in its 2006 profile of Galenson : What he has found is that genius - whether in art or architecture or even business - is not the sole province of 17-year-old Picassos and 22-year-old Andreessens. Instead, it comes in two very different forms, embodied by two very different types of people. "Conceptual innovators," as Galenson calls them, make bold, dramatic leaps in their disciplines. They do their breakthrough work when they are young. Think Edvard Munch, Herman Melville, and Orson Welles. They make the rest of us feel like also-rans. Then there's a second character type, someone who's just as significant but trudging by comparison. Galenson calls this group "experimental innovators." Geniuses like Auguste Rodin, Mark Twain, and Alfred Hitchcock proceed by a lifetime of trial and error and thus do their important work much later in their careers. Galenson maintains that this duality - conceptualists are from Mars, experimentalists are from Venus - is the core of the creative process. And it applies to virtually every field of intellectual endeavor, from painters and poets to economists. Now, along with Joshua Koti ... |
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