Explaining a rare creative intelligencefrom @kolbykirschner

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There's a rare type of intelligence that I'm super fascinated by. It's the person who notices everything better they somehow stay super playful about it. They pick up tiny patterns in people. The change in someone's tone, a weird social ritual that everybody follows, the absurdly specific thing that a certain type of person always does. But they don't just analyze everything to death, they play with what they notice. They make strange connections, they experiment with ideas, They follow curiosities that seem pointless. They can find something fascinating in the most ordinary parts of life. There's almost a childlike quality to the way they rank, not childish, childlike. They're aware enough to see the patterns underneath things, but they're playful enough to keep asking questions like, what else is underneath this? I think that little combination is a lot more powerful than it looks. Because pattern recognition lets you see what other people miss, but playfulness lets you explore what other people just dismiss. Einstein played with imaginary beams and trains of light in his thought experiments. Shakespeare spent his whole life bending and playing with language. Mozart was famously playful even while creating like the most sophisticated music. The childlike mind rank, what happens if I play around with this? What what happens if I mess with this? The pattern recognition part of the mind asks, why would why does this keep happening? Put those two minds together into somebody and you have someone who can see the hidden structure of everything.