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Dec 6, 2007

"I do know that craft, if you pursue craft, will return you again and again to this creative state. To pursue the craft means to endeavor to bring together the intention of the mind to the hand, and an invitation to feeling -- an invitation to a new kind of feeling." --Nicholas Hlobeczy

Old Master, Young Genius

Despite Robert Frost’s musing about the possibility of veering off toward "the road not taken," he and other artists are, by their inclinations, pretty much destined to follow one of two major pathways to success, contends David Galenson, Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. Galenson, whose recent work has used economic data to examine the careers of painters, has expanded his work to study other creative artists, including poets, novelists, sculptors and movie directors. In each case, he has found that creative people fall into two camps: the conceptual artists who come up with new visions for their fields and blossom early, and the experimental artists who spend long careers polishing approaches to their work and often achieve their most important success later in life. Galenson also extends his analysis to understand innovation in fields beyond the artistic.

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BE THE CHANGE
Consider approaching a situation in your life as a "young genius." Also consider a situation which you can approach as an "old master."



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