When were the world's greatest people most creative?


By

thierry ehrmann

Artist Oliver Uberti used as an infographic about 177 artists, writers, poets, scholars, IT-related entrepreneurs, etc. who were active from 1300 to the present, and how old they were at their heyday. It is summarized.

Lifelines | oliver uberti – portfolio
https://oliveruberti.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/lifelines/

When The Great Creative Minds Peaked --Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/when-the-great-creative-minds-peaked-2015-1



The infographic created by artist Uberti is as follows. It's a huge graph, so you can't tell what this is by just looking at it.



This infographic arranges 177 great men clockwise in the order of their earliest birth. The colorful lines extending from the central 'Birth' mark represent the lifespan of each great man, and the color of the line indicates in which field each great man was active. There are five line colors in all, yellow for artists, light blue for IT-related entrepreneurs, reddish purple for poets, green for scholars, and bluish purple for musicians.

The older ones started with painter and architect

Giotto di Bondone and poet Geoffrey Chaucer , and the youngest great man was nominated for Tumblr founder David Karp. Also, Steve Jobs was the earliest person named in the infographic as an 'IT-related entrepreneur', and the light blue line is around 11:55 to 12:00 on the clock. I am concentrating on.



Mr. Uberti defines the year when the greatest discoveries, works, achievements, etc. left by the great men are completed as the 'time when the creativity was the highest (the peak of creativity)' of each great man, and this is the info. It is represented by a black dot in the graphic. 'If one composer composes three great songs, the year when the second of the three songs is completed will be the heyday,' he said. He talks about how to define the 'heyday of creativity' of a person who has accomplished his feat.

Looking at the infographic focusing on this 'heyday of creativity', 60% of the paintings, songs, discoveries and achievements left by each great man are between the 30s and 40s (THE GOLDEN). You can see that it is made in YEARS).

For example, Michael Faraday's line, which established the basic theory of electromagnetic fields in physics, is the green line in the image below, and 'the heyday of creativity' was just around the age of 30.



Elsewhere, Marie Curie (Mrs. Curie) discovered radiation at the age of 30, Michelangelo completed the ceiling painting of the Sistine Chapel at the age of 37, and Gustav Mahler performed Symphony No. 5 . It was completed when I was 42 years old, and all of these apply to 'THE GOLDEN YEARS'.

The fact that the world's greats have made great achievements between the ages of 30 and 50 is often seen in infographics, some of which have reached their peak since they were over 70. It may be a mistake to think that it is 'too late' to challenge your life.

in Note, Posted by logu_ii