<p>Would einstein have achieved what he did if he was just book smart and didn’t apply what he knew creatively. Do you think creative intelligence or book intelligence matters more? What side do you pick and why? If, so why do you think alot of people work hard to regurgitate information without applying it creatively in school. Does school deprive you of creativity. Choose a side and explain why?</p>
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<li>This is a false dichotomy. Both are important.</li>
<li>The question is very vague. Matters more for what?</li>
<li>This sounds like an essay question for school. You should be doing your own work.</li>
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<p>This is not an essay question</p>
<p>Being book smart helps if you want to establish a career as a regurgitator, or possibly if you want to impress your friends with your knowledge of the South American Red dart frog which you read about in Encyclopedia once.</p>
<p>En el otro mano, I have no idea what creative knowledge is. It sounds like something a stupid person made up to pretend they were intelligent.</p>
<p>Creative intelligence is basically the ability to think outside the box and use your pre-existing knowledge and apply it to novel situations.</p>
<p>But I’m not understanding how we are defining what’s creative.</p>
<p>How can you say one thought is creative and the other isn’t? There’s no way to test for it.</p>
<p>You’re right, but the ability to think in more than one way could be another way to define creative intelligence instead of letting yourself become restricted to one point of view.</p>
<p>The two work hand-in-hand. Creative intelligence without an extensive knowledge of what has already been achieved has no stable ground.</p>
<p>I find that most people that are “book smart” are also very creative (that doesn’t sound like the best word). I feel like I am a more creative person because of school. I have been taught what I need to know in order to explore my own thoughts more thoroughly. After reading great poetry in school and being given the chance to practice it myself, I start to think in poetry. I see things through a different lens and carefully phrase my thoughts in my head. I don’t think I would have been able to do this without school. You need to be smart enough to absorb the information and resources in front of you, and you can use them any way you want. I think that being book smart helps you develop a creative side. Whether it is finding an alternate way to solve an equation, composing a beautiful music piece, or writing an inspiring essay, it all starts with the desire to learn and one’s ability to absorb information, which is sometimes translated into being smart.</p>
<p>That’s a really insightful statement helloel.</p>
<p>Just hope that made some sense hah. And are you being sarcastic? Sorry I can never tell, CC really needs to have like a sarcasm font or something.</p>
<p>No, really I mean it!</p>
<p>Oh okay thanks! People on CC can be very sarcastic (including myself) haha.</p>
<p>Life is more funner with creative intelligence :P</p>
<p>You are asking about people, if I understand correctly, whether fluid intelligence is more important than crystalized intelligence?</p>
<p>They are both important, and for different things. Not everyone needs to be Einstein. Neither does everyone need to be Ken Jennings. Most of us are somewhere in the middle, and that balance is advantageous.</p>
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<p>And I thought I was weird for doing this!</p>
<p>Yeah I do it a lot. Especially if I’m walking my dog around outside by myself or something haha.</p>
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Just so you know, hand is a feminine noun, so that should’ve been “la otra mano.” Then again, you shouldn’t literally translate phrases. An Spanish equivalent would be “por otra parte.”</p>
<p>As for the topic, as aldfig0 said, you’re creating a falso dichotomy. I love that people always feel the need to put everything into two categories.</p>
<p>Creative intelligence helps me get 100% on multiple choice tests without understanding the questions.</p>