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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from DirtKing239]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I would have to say that I have a pretty good memory, perhaps not photographic, but close.  If I find some fact interesting, or hear something that makes an impression on my one way or the other, I tend to remember it without trying to. Often times I'll remember random (and meaningless) parts of a conversation with someone that they won't even remember themselves.  I also find that it only takes one or two trips to someplace new until I know the way by sight.  There are other times when I'll be driving down a well traveled road and think something doesn't look right until I notice that a whole swath of trees has been cut down.  About the only downside to my memory is that once I've learned something for a test, I have to review the material every so often in order to retain that information.

I would also say that I'm pretty creative, perhaps not commercial grade.  I work as a software tester, which may not sound creative on the surface, but I have to analyze new applications and changes to existing application, and create an appropriate test coverage based on what is being implemented by development and what I perceive to be changes with high rates-of-failure.  I also have had poems published.  And I don't know if this would be considered creative, but I have a litany of useless talents including being able to make balloon animals.

So, I wouldn't say I'm the counter-example, but perhaps I have a perfect balance of the two.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from cjonsecurity]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott, I just want to say one thing on this subject (besides the fact that I adore the Dilbert strip).  You should expect the male and female brains to be different here.  There is a lot more connective tissue between brain halves with us gals, which makes it harder for us to compartmentalize (my theory) but easier to multi-task.  I mention this because one of the differences you are noting in yourself shows up in recent studies: women can usually recall very specific details of conversations and interactions whereas most men can only recall the feelings they had at the time.  It's quite possible that your lack of recall of these things is exacerbated by a hemispheric concentration on creativity, but it's clearly not all that.  I would say that as a woman who is commercially creative that I also SUCK terribly at directions of any kind - I think I can go there 50 times but then I'm driving and thinking about the names of the hiway exits in a whole new way and suddenly I no longer remember: was that the exit?  Or was that the exit before the exit?  Or the one after?  And I'm horrible with remembering people's names until/unless I know enough about them to connect those details to a name.  I do think there are things other people think we SHOULD care about which we really don't...so we never worry about holding onto that data...or maybe the penalty for not doing it just isn't big enough.  I'm a leftie too and I consider my &quot;dominant&quot; hand my right hand.  Which is true but wrong :-)  I think that if I worked really hard I might be able to re-wire this...but actually everyone in my life has learned to work around it, so no need really and I'm pretty busy so that problem remains unfixed.  Ah shucks, we all have our crosses to bear!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from ffemtjacque]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Another commenter mentioned Edmonds.  Here's an interesting article....
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from gypsyranger]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bruce Lee would call this returning the echo, however i feel he is attributing some active element to his concept, whereas Scott seems to be talking about the passive element, although i'm not sure.

For me this has worked out so far to enable me to develop an ability to be able to ask myself a question and receive a response. Except it's not like asking a question anymore for me, it's more like getting to a point when my clarity on an issue falls away, and just letting it go, rather than trying to keep remaining clear, effortfully. Now it is at the stage of wondering. I wonder about something, let it go into the void, and something comes back. the echo of my own wondering has been returned.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from liquidgas]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I more like you.  Less forgetting but probably less creativity, too.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Jengineer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hi Scott

I think you are right, bad memory helps creativity. I have a good memory and it destroys a good part of my creativity because when I think about something new, I always remember something similar that has been done previously as COLEMAN1981 said. This is especialy true in the artistic field, where the same patterns are used on and on ( music, movies, litterature, painting etc..)

Without this fear of redoing something already done, I could let my imagination go free and maybe realize something really new. Too much knowledge and memory is bad for creativity because it keeps me inside existing paradigms.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Labreck]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have a great creativity. As for memory it depend on what, I can't remember date and number, for the number it can be a bit annoying when I'm doing math, unless it's important. I have a very good recall for conversation and I remember damn well general concept and how thing flow together. So small fact and unimportant thing no. Also I have a good orientation sense and I need only one or two time going somewhere to know how get there. All in all, my memory is pretty good too and I don't lose fabulous idea neither, without having to write it down.

I think creativity is less about forgetting stuff and waiting for luck to give us good insight and more about free thinking, not being limited in what you can imagine for all sorts of reason, and not sticking to the same idea for too long. Your assumption might seem correct as I think instead a good balance of people have bad memory and creativity but compensate for the bad memory by sticking to something for longer. They'll highly focus on a though and thus miss link and even unrelated thinking they might have if they had a better memory. These people end up remembering some sort of fact in a more liable way that creative people with bad memory. But in the end, the creative people don't have a worse or better memory, they just don't cope to remember and if they need, will prefer to write down important stuff. They allocate their brain resource differently.

But that could just be me, I read a lot, and quite fast, with a decent recall percentage. Unimportant detail got flush very fast and sometime I only need to remember something partially as my processing is able to recreate the whole information if need arise. I prefer remembering the roots facts that all the leafs facts. With the root, you can get the leafs back, but you can't get the roots with the leafs.

So maybe I don't have both a wonderful memory and superb creativity, but my long term memory is above average, as my creativity.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[I think we need to distinguish between problem-solving creativity, and artistic creativity.

When solving complex problems, having good memory can betray you because it might trick you into you taking relevant clues off the table.

When being artistic, you want to draw on your memories of your interactions with the world in all its variety and recombine them.  If you just dump these bits because they don't help you expand and consolidate your map, then you aren't going to have any material to build from.

I suck at being artistic. Like when artistic people look at old churches and see inspiration, I see lack of new information.
How about this theory: people with bad memory struggle with appreciating ancient buildings or art.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[My oldest son does. Ok, I realize this a Mom, assessing her kid's &quot;commercial grade creativity&quot; - so take it for what it is worth. 

However, even if you take my word on that point, I should also point out that no one would consider him a true counter-example for your theory. He does have a near-photographic memory -with astonishing recall of facts, figures, etc. He can quote long passages of text and then give insightful analysis. 

He cannot, however, find his way home without GPS if he is more than four blocks away. (Two blocks, from one direction...). 

He definitely tends to mentally flush out details others consider important. He technically qualifies as a counter-example, however - because you did not ask about recalling mundane details. You asked about fact and figures recall.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[I'll support your hypothesis; I have an excellent memory... and am not at all creative.  I find it hard to come up with new ideas.  

I try to compensate for it with experimentation - and remembering snippets about what worked for other people, connecting the dots, etc.  At work, it can occasionally look like creativity.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Therion, I said &quot;borders on,&quot; not &quot;actually is.&quot; It was a simple way of describing something. All I meant was that most people I encounter cannot recite back a particular experience with anything even remotely approaching the level of specific detail that I can (and I can usually only do it short-term). I just picked a familiar term, as I didn't think &quot;excellent memory&quot; is adequate for something that I've been told is abnormal, multiple times by multiple people. If there's a better term for recalling a particularly high amount of extremely specific **spatial and/or sequential** details of an experience, that's what I'd use to describe my own memory ability. 

I mostly consider it more of a stupid-human-trick with few real-world applications; it's kind of like how my dad used to be able to write two different sentences at the same time (one with each hand) as a kid, at least until the nuns smacked it out of him.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The worst part about attempting to be creative when you have a great memory...you know exactly what and from whom you are stealing.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[piglet - &quot;was this a real vacation, or just one I &quot;took&quot; in a dream while sleeping?&quot; I'm a very creative musician, and I get real memories confused with dream memories all the time. Check the amount of detail? I'll try that.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[I know exactly what you mean....and have the same situation...although I don't call it a problem.  I was involved in chemical/pharmaceutical research for 25 years.  My normal approach to a new problem was to break it down into sub-problems.  Then when looking at the sub-problems I would try to quickly evaluate....in general has something like that been done before or not.  If I had a general feeling that something like it had been done before, I would quickly move on, thinking that the details could be looked up later, when and if an **implementation** phase was actually reached.  After all there is no point in stuffing one's head full of details when the details will actually be different for each occurrence of the same general situation.   Using this approach it was much easier to spend the majority of the time and effort trying to identify and work on the sub problem that had either never been solved before....or to see if there is sub-problem that was definitely going to be a show stopper.   Often times what seems like a new problem is just a matter of assembling sub-problems, that have already been solved before, in a new combination.  Isn't that what Newton did with the apple?


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<description><![CDATA[Wow, I have exactly that: terrible memory and great creativity. It forces me to reevaluate something in a new light every time I get back to it. However, my memory is degrading even more with age, and I think it is becoming more of a disadvantage now than an advantage, so I am guessing there is a sweet spot, and that sweet spot is where I was 4 or so years ago.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Natan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott, one of the hardest things in human life is to confess that we are wrong.  If we don't simply repent, we can come up with all sorts of ways to justify ourselves.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from rdn]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have a very good memory but frequently have trouble with recall.  Like you I often have no recollection of a conversation or event but eventually someone finds the right trigger.  Then wham, it all comes flooding back and I remember a lot of details such as who was there, where the were sitting/standing, what they ate etc.  Maybe you have a really good memory but are really crappy at recall.]]></description>
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