HACKER Q&A
📣 amichail

Does a zeal for learning (e.g., CS) reduce your creativity?


Maybe there are fewer opportunities for creativity when your focus is on learning rather than creating something novel?

Maybe you don't even know whether you are creative as a result?

Maybe less respect for learning might result in more creativity?


  👤 rileyphone Accepted Answer ✓
It really depends on your approach to learning. If you're just learning in the rubric style, taking a checklist of topics, assignments, like school, yeah that will reduce your creativity. But if you're just exploring and playing with new things that pique your curiosity, the way a child learns before school, the opposite is the case.