Creativity & Escaping The Noise of Socially Belonging

When quant researchers, investors, artists, policy makers, scientists, engineers, political leaders, and other people present to us what the best of us think about things, they are not just presenting ideas but also who they associate with subconsciously—unaware parts of the brain. This means that their beliefs are tied to their sense of self, or their identity. If we unravel the mirage of that identity we unravel them, which results in emotional responses as the brain moves to defend its false sense of reality constructed around collective association.

Creativity & Escaping The Noise of Social Identity. As in part suggested by Raymond F. Jones—writer of the famous Sci-Fi film, Island Earth—in "Noise Level", creativity requires both psychological-emotional freedom from the need to be accepted by the rest of society as well as inside ourselves, and freedom from fear of how that lack of desire to belong makes other people feel as we disrespect the dogma and system they spent their entire lives trying to earn the respect of so they could move up in society.

To make the connection between creativity and escaping the above connections to humanity, consider this narration of a story in "Noise Level" while not allowing the presenters further discussions on anti-gravity to undermine or discredit the thesis of this "noise level" message.

"Noise Level" Summarized

Thus, creativity requires an almost innate lack of awareness of social forces and needs of people so that their noise is not interfering with our pursuits of ideas without regard for their human emotional needs in the process. This means that creativity can sometimes result in a lack of popularity; people usually react with anger to someone unraveling the reality around them as our behavior assumes everything they emotionally value is a waste of time.

Creative Research Processes. The best ideas come from selfishly, sometimes even arrogantly, ignoring the wants and needs of the social being, the emotional social contract. After one understands all of the moving parts of what it is we observe without regard for what everyone else is doing, after one starts to test and re-test hypothesis, after one proves them or fails to prove them, at that time we can look recognize the success, social contract, of the establishment and its techniques: but never, ever, before we selfishly first prove to ourselves we are incorrect, or correct with no regard for the work of others or those before us.

Creativity requires escaping not just dogma but also the emotional social contract (noise—of humanity. We must escape the noise of the human need to belong to identities, to need respect for doing what others suggest is needed to climb the path to success; we must walk all over it as if it is not there if we seek to bring a fresh mind to solve the problems of the world, to discover.

Creativity By Escaping The Distraction Of the Social-Ego-Belonging Needs That Make Us Human. In other words, to advance the human species we must selfishly escape the distracting noise of our need to belong and all of its social emotional contracts. To escape the noise of the social aspect of humanity in problem solving and discovery, we must ignore those subtle needs of people—almost as if one was autistic and unaware of the social needs of other people—and close our ears to everyone who talks about their ideas or them as if we are alone in the universe left as the last resort to solve the problem: and with no regard how that makes other people feel as they seek validation from the collective that we have no regard for in more humanity-indifferent pursuits.

Creative People Do Not Care. Creativity requires escaping the noise of identity seeking and emotions of people as much as it does their ideas. When we arrive in this frame of thought, we can then begin to remove the noise of social people from the process of objectively thinking and solving problems: lending us to empower stronger analytical thinking and eventually creativity. Creative people are endowed/blessed with the sin of not caring what others think or value when thinking and presenting ideas... they are void of a need to prove their place in the world: to themselves or others, and see such needs as wasteful. Creative people do not invest in external validation with respect to what everyone else thinks or is doing, because in their mind they do not exist... with respect to ideas and proving them. There is what creative people imagine, and that is it... in the most extreme and authoritarian-stubborn-ish sense, no other person in the universe exists in the mind of a creative—no matter how that attitude makes others feel—until the creative proves themselves wrong, or correct.

For the creative, the purpose of life is selfish discovery, a very Cartesian—René Descartes—and sometimes offensive value set: not a 1% desire for belonging, validating, earning respect... none of these social values.