When Did Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature Make Their Best Work
TL;DR: An analysis of 189 highest prices works by modern arts painters in Franses (2013) revealed that, on average, the painters were 41.92 years old when they created their most impor...
Abstract: An analysis of 189 highest prices works by modern arts painters (who have deceased) in Franses (2013) revealed that, on average, the painters were 41.92 years old when they created their most impor...
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22 Jul 2015TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a dynamic model of the interactions between four key components of creativity, i.e., product, person, process, and press, which function as building blocks of innovation.
Abstract: In today's highly competitive market, organizations increasingly need to innovate in order to survive. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research in the field of creativity, David H. Cropley and Arthur J. Cropley illustrate practical methods for conceptualizing and managing organizational innovation. They present a dynamic model of the interactions between four key components of creativity - product, person, process, and press - which function as building blocks of innovation. This volume sheds new light on the nature of innovative products and the processes that generate them, the psychological characteristics of innovative people, and the environments that facilitate innovation. It also fills a significant gap in the current literature by addressing the paradoxical quality of organizational innovation, which may be both helped and hindered by the same factors. The authors demonstrate that with proper measurement and management, organizations can effectively encourage individuals to produce and take advantage of novel ideas.
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TL;DR: This article showed that classic composers created their best works when they were at a similar age when creators in other domains did their best work, namely when they are at an age that represented around 60% of their life span.
Abstract: This Research Note shows that classic composers created their best works when they were at a similar age when creators in other domains did their best work, namely when they were at an age that represented around 60% of their life span. This finding is very similar to earlier results for painters and authors.
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...TABLE 2 Average age and average relative age of peak creativity of painters (Franses, 2013) and authors (Franses, 2014)...
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...Recent studies on peak creativity of 189 painters and 89 authors with a Nobel Prize in Franses (2013, 2014) inspired the investigation in this research note....
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TL;DR: According to Franses (2013, 2014, 2016), artists such as painters, writers, and classic composers did their best work at the optimal moment in their lives, and the moment was found to be close to t...
Abstract: According to Franses (2013, 2014, 2016), artists such as painters, writers, and classic composers did their best work at the optimal moment in their lives, and the moment was found to be close to t...
TL;DR: In an article that appeared in The Washington Post this past June, columnist Christopher Ingraham introduced readers to the Dutch economist Philip Hans Franses (Ingraham, 2016), who has been analyzing the creative output of individuals working in a range of fields in hopes of identifying when they typically reach their productive peak or produce their highest quality work.
Abstract: There is a lot of talk these days about human capacity for productivity, career longevity, and peak performance. In an article that appeared in the The Washington Post this past June, columnist Christopher Ingraham introduced readers to the Dutch economist Philip Hans Franses (Ingraham, 2016). Franses has been analyzing the creative output of individuals working in a range of fields in hopes of identifying when they typically reach their productive peak or produce their highest quality work. He determined that Nobel Prize–winning writers, for example, produce their most outstanding work around an average age of 45, modern art painters typically reach a creative zenith when they are about 42, and classical composers produce their most iconic pieces at roughly 39 years of age (Franses, 2013, 2014, 2016). While there are some notable outliers and late bloomer exceptions (e.g., American composer Charles Ives and painter Edward Hopper), most people engaged in creative work at the highest levels appear to “peak” in their late 30s or early 40s—at around 60% of their life span. Do these peak performance metrics apply to music education researchers? Several studies of researcher eminence and citation frequency have been conducted over the past 30 years, but I am not certain anyone has considered whether there are definable phases or a prototypical arc to music education researcher careers. While the quantity and quality of work produced by various music education researchers might always be measured and compared, perhaps more attention should be paid to institutional factors and shifting professional mores that influence research career productivity and longevity? And if members of our researcher community do tend to achieve a creative peak slightly before or around age 45, then what accomplishments might one aspire to in the later stages of a higher education career? There is no doubt that research productivity may be either facilitated or inhibited by personal dispositions and work habits, but work contexts and lived realities also come into play. Research, at its core, is a creative process. Researchers bring creativity to their conceptualization of a theory or problem, they employ creativity in designing a study, they may adopt creative approaches to analyzing data (while avoiding ethical
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...…Nobel Prize–winning writers, for example, produce their most outstanding work around an average age of 45, modern art painters typically reach a creative zenith when they are about 42, and classical composers produce their most iconic pieces at roughly 39 years of age (Franses, 2013, 2014, 2016)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed that modern art painters make their best works at the optimal moment in their lives, a moment that could then be associated with the Divine proportion (the Fibonacci phi), and an analysis of 189 highest-priced works by as many modern artists, comparing the moment of creation with their life span of these artists, yielded the remarkable result that the estimated fraction is 0.6198, which indeed is only 0.0018 away from the divine fraction.
Abstract: This Research Note proposes that modern art painters make their best works at the optimal moment in their lives, a moment that could then be associated with the Divine proportion (the Fibonacci phi). An analysis of 189 highest-priced works by as many modern art painters, comparing the moment of creation with their life span of these artists, yielded the remarkable result that the estimated fraction is 0.6198, which indeed is only 0.0018 away from the divine fraction.
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...Philip Hans Franses Erasmus School of Economics, The Netherlands An analysis of 189 highest prices works by modern arts painters (who have deceased) in Franses (2013) revealed that, on average, the painters were 41.92 years old when they created their most important work....
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...An analysis of 189 highest prices works by modern arts painters (who have deceased) in Franses (2013) revealed that, on average, the painters were 41....
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