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The New Groupthink
March 6, 2012
The heart is the first feature of working minds.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
-Frank Lloyd Wright
"But there's a problem with this view. Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted...They're extroverted enough to exchange and advance ideas, but see themselves as independent and individualistic. They're not joiners by nature.
"One explanation for these findings is that introverts are comfortable working alone -- and solitude is a catalyst to innovation. As the influential psychologist Hans Eysenck observed, introversion fosters creativity by 'concentrating the mind on the tasks in hand and preventing the dissipation of energy on social and sexual matters unrelated to work.'"
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Displaying All 2 CommentsOMEP-USA
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
You know what I think? It takes BOTH styles. I love solitude, but I also work at being a good team player. You find a way to balance the two styles in your very own life!
Montreal, QC, Canada
I have big concerns about Exchange quoting an article using Eysenck as a justification for anything. From Wikipedia:
Genetics and Intelligence
By far the most acrimonious of the debates has been that over the role of genetics in IQ differences (see intelligence quotient#Genetics vs environment), which led to Eysenck famously being punched on the nose by a female protestor during a talk at the London School of Economics,[10] as well as bomb threats, and threats to kill his young children.[11] This opposition came when he supported Arthur Jensen's questioning of whether variation in IQ between racial groups was entirely environmental. (see race and intelligence).[12]
Eysenck thought the media gave the misleading impression that his views were those of a maverick outside the mainstream scientific consensus and cited The IQ Controversy, the Media and Public Policy as showing that there was majority support for every single one of the main contentions he had put forward, further asserting that the idea there was any real debate about the matter among the relevant scientists was incorrect.[13][14]
Some of Eysenck's later work was funded from the Pioneer Fund, an organization often criticized for promoting scientific racism[15][16][17] [18] for which Eysenck was also criticised.[19]
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He also received 'secret' funding for 'consultation research' via New York legal firm Jacob & Medinger which was acting on behalf of the tobacco industry. Asked what he felt about tobacco industry lawyers being involved in selecting scientists for research projects, he said: "As long as somebody pays for the research I don't care who it is." Research should be judged on quality, not on who paid for it, he said, adding that he had not personally profited from the funds. (example document here, via tobaccodocuments.org). According to the UK newspaper The Independent, Eysenck received more than £800k in this way — though, when interviewed by UK's Channel 4 TV in 1996, he "could not remember exactly the source... " of the money.
www.independent.co.uk/news/eysenck-took-pounds-800000-tobacco-funds-1361007.html
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