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June 23rd, 2009 Jessica Hagy Posted in optimism |


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18 Responses to “Do you wonder?”

  1. HermanoBen Says:
    June 23rd, 2009 at 12:02 pm

    I’m desperated, I can’t imagine what to comment

  2. Egogramme Says:
    June 23rd, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    If only it were true…

  3. Egogramme' Says:
    June 23rd, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    I used to believe that too.

  4. strayhiker Says:
    June 23rd, 2009 at 1:39 pm

    What about necessity?

  5. Mike Says:
    June 23rd, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    desperation - nothing to blog about
    imagination - lots to blog about

  6. Stripe Says:
    June 23rd, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    I guess I Wonder if I totally miss the point. To me Desperation fuels Imagination; necessity is the mother of invention. The more desperate the situation the greater the need for imaginative solutions. And Imagination is no guard against Desperation; Great ideas have lead good people to bad ends, again and again.

  7. Dee Wilcox Says:
    June 23rd, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    I suppose it goes both ways. Creativity requires constraint… but desperation - real desperation - might kill the energy you need to be imaginative. When I feel creative, I feel either energetic or very “in my head” - when I feel down - or desperate - imagination is my way out.

  8. hisllama Says:
    June 23rd, 2009 at 10:56 pm

    So that is how they come up with the really lame advertisements

  9. Dave Says:
    June 24th, 2009 at 12:04 am

    Where is the “MacGyver Curve”? He seemed to have incredible imagination in very desperate situations.

  10. Andre Molnar Says:
    June 24th, 2009 at 2:55 am

    I’m pretty sure that this one goes both ways.
    With blatant disregard for the intellectual property of this index card, I created this illustration:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/7479611@N04/3655814827/

    Up to all of you to find a clever comment for the intersection of the two lines.

  11. Hugo Iwata Says:
    June 24th, 2009 at 4:42 am

    I’m pretty sure that this one goes both ways. [2]

    The second line better suits the situation when you are paranoid.

  12. Jerry E. Stephens Says:
    June 24th, 2009 at 8:49 am

    Looks like an appropriate description of the recent presidential vote in Iran.

  13. Cautionary Girl Says:
    June 24th, 2009 at 11:17 am

    The line would be inverted if the title of this graph were “Don Draper.”

  14. Cecilia Says:
    June 24th, 2009 at 7:22 pm

    Hmmm… given my desperate financial situation since my lay-off, I’d say that as my desperation increases, so does my ability to come up with imaginative ways to put food on the table…

  15. Ember Says:
    June 26th, 2009 at 9:39 pm

    I agree that increased desperation prompts increased imagination, but I parsed this one as “once your imagination starts increasing, your desperation starts dropping”

    But maybe that’s some kind of bell curve?

    –Ember–

  16. Anjali Says:
    June 27th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    Love it. And I agree - that’s the way it usually works, all considered, even though there is the odd occasion when desperation brings out the best in some people.

  17. Quinn Says:
    June 29th, 2009 at 4:27 am

    I’m just glad that all of you kind, creative, intelligent people exist. This site, and this discussion, are a refreshing treat.

  18. Desperation and Imagination Says:
    July 22nd, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    [...] is the relationship between desperation and imagination? The answer is here. (From one of my favorite sites, Indexed, the creative Jessica Hagy’s oft-brilliant graphical [...]

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