Low Latent Inhibition
Jordan Peterson of the University of Toronto and colleagues at Harvard University in 2003 published the result of an extensive research project on Latent Inhibition. Their pressrelease was titled: “Biological Basis For Creativity Linked To Mental Illness”.
I feel much better now!
I won’t try to explain the whole project here but what I found interesting about it is that it all sounds so familiar to the entrepreneur in me. Low Latent Inhibition is a defect (or talent) that makes it hard for people (and animals) to ignore details or information that isn’t important to their cause. In other words: “to ignore stimuli that experience has shown are irrelevant to its needs”.
I’m sure everybody recognises this. You remember your first telephone number but not where you left your keys.
The authors hypothesize that latent inhibition may be positive when combined with high intelligence and good working memory - the capacity to think about many things at once - but negative otherwise.
Peterson states: “If you are open to new information, new ideas, you better be able to intelligently and carefully edit and choose. If you have 50 ideas, only two or three are likely to be good. You have to be able to discriminate or you’ll get swamped.”
Sounds like what entrepreneurs, innovators and creative people often talk about.
I often notice that I tend to look ‘different’ at things. I used to think that it was my art academy background that caused this but I’m now thinking that it might not be an acquired talent but a simple case of Low Latent Inhibition.
More information:
Biological Basis For Creativity Linked To Mental Illness
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031001061055.htm
low latent inhibition: one of the biological bases of creativity
http://www.straddle3.net/context/03/en/2003_10_13.html
Low Latent Inhibition Plus High Intelligence Leads To High Creativity?
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/001684.html
Eric said,
May 16, 2006 @ 6:17 am
im fucking irritated with you guys,
when the heck your site is going to come up..
i think ur just duping us all the way,, bloody bluffing mongrels
Edd said,
May 19, 2006 @ 6:38 am
You’re not the only one there Eric. End of April was the last claimed release date and it’s now coming to the end of May. Hmm…
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten said,
May 19, 2006 @ 6:55 am
It’s not pleasent to miss a deadline like this in public when anybody gets a chance to tell everybody that you are late. It’s one thing to be late and having to explain this to one or two partners. But to the thousands of beta sign-ups, hundreds of daily visitors and friends, partners and investors it’s a whole different story.
Trust me that we are working very hard to get our shit together and launch as soon as possible. The reason why we haven’t launched is because the software just isn’t good enough. If we would launch now people would say “Why couldn’t they wait a bit longer and launch a more stable product?”
You can please all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but not all of the people all of the time.
But that doesn’t mean we don’t try…
edd said,
May 19, 2006 @ 4:42 pm
Well, all I can say is, it has some extreme expecations to meet. I really hope it doesn’t fall short.
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten said,
May 20, 2006 @ 3:34 am
Hi Edd, the longer we wait, the higher those expectations will rise. I just hope people will like what we have to offer eeven if they haven’t been following us for a few months.
Anonymous said,
May 23, 2006 @ 2:46 am
so you’re watching prison break too?
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten said,
May 23, 2006 @ 3:15 am
Hi Anonymous, I only watched the 3 minutes where his old psychiatrist explained Low Latent Inhibition to the girl from prison. That got me started.
Michael J.W Beijer said,
May 27, 2006 @ 8:43 am
hmmm.
i advise all Fleck beta-testers to read In Said City in which i try and explain concepts such as the wkwkwk.web, minreality, etc.
http://michaelbeijer.tk/
or just click on my name above…
Michael J.W Beijer said,
May 27, 2006 @ 9:06 am
hmmm.
i advise all Fleck beta-testers to read In Said City in which i try and explain concepts such as the wkwkwk.web, minreality, etc.
BillyWarhol said,
June 1, 2006 @ 12:11 pm
it’s forebodingly QUIET on the Fleck Blog* does this mean “something” is coming out of Stealth-mode!!
)
June 1, 2006*
Take yer time guys & get it right!!!!!
;))
hey the first 3 letters of the word verify are kgb*
Fleck = Da Vinci Code*
edd said,
June 1, 2006 @ 12:30 pm
The home page now states that beta testing is about to start:
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten said,
June 1, 2006 @ 12:44 pm
Hi guys and girls, yes the reason I haven’t blogged this week is because we are very busy to launch the closed beta. And since am half a developer myself I had to do a lot of work too. Anyway, we are almost there…
Boris
Anonymous said,
September 14, 2006 @ 10:41 am
i myself actually have low letent inhibiton, im just glad that i have an high IQ, people with a low IQ with LLI can end up mentally ill. but IQ people are more likly to have breakdowns insted..