Is inconsistency an essential prerequisite for creativity? Are innovation & inconsistency inseparably related?

Answer 1

i never really thought of it that way. i think you're really on to something there! :) i guess, yes, inconsistency is tied to creativity in more ways than one... usually with more raw talent or creativity. take my craft, writing, for example. what sucks about writing is the bursts of energy to write, and the long days when you can't seem to get out of a corner with a plot or if you don't like anything you write. inconsistency. some of the best things i've written have been because of those bursts... but as you grow more experienced, you learn how to become consistent, how to get through blocks, how to think of plot twists. Awesome question. i applaud you.

Answer 2

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
-Daniel Webster

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
-Zig Ziglar

No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
-Cicero

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
-Joseph Addison

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
-Joseph Addison

One cannot live without inconsistency.
-Carl Gustav Jung

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue; and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
-Mark Twain

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.
-Lord Chesterfield


Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
-Samuel Butler

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Answer 3

Nah, I don't think there's any solid connection betwen the two.

I'm a very creative person, but also fairly consistent when it comes to other areas of my life. I have a very good sense of organization and I don't think that it interferes with my artistic side.

Answer 4

If you are consistant in that ratio & proportion to creativity.
Inconsistency is the Mother of Innovation.

Answer 5

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