Tag: human creativity
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Creativity Is The Most Important Goal
…allow students to learn in explorative, creative ways, and focus on promoting the habits of self-learning and independent thinking, and make creative thinking the most important goal. –Hao Jingfang, ‘Education must foster creativity – and fight inequality, 26 Jun 2017′ If we have learned anything of late, it is that we are resilient, creative and…
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Why Are Artists Poor?
New Research Suggests It Could Be Hardwired Into Their Brain Chemistry. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! Most artists work for exceptionally low pay. Despite the precarious nature of the art economy, they carry on, ostensibly sacrificing monetary compensation for the loftier reward of creative freedom. But what if some artists are actually—physiologically—hardwired not to…
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Why Creative People Are Rarely Seen as Leaders
Is that why there are few ‘Chief Creative Officers’ of companies? Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! We are in love with the word Eureka, and for a good reason. Creativity is magic: it’s the ability to create something out of nothing, to make connections that others don’t see. Everyone wants to work for, or…
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Can You Be Creative and Poor?
Why does our economic system force such choices on people? Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! I never minded the rain, but if it rained for more than three days in a row, I began to feel trapped. I was in my twenties and trying my best to scrape together a living as an artist.…
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The Relationship Between Creativity, Innovation and Poverty
Like so many things in life, solutions are often simple – if we don’t overcomplicate them. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! Mainstream thinking revolves around the idea that emerging nations need the industrialized world to bring innovation to them, since they lack the resources to innovate themselves. Silicon Valley and their cohort have proven…
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How creativity is killed in the Majority World
The tragic consequences of denying creativity. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! As the ability to imagine a better world, creativity is a vital skill for oppressed peoples. But most of the world is excluded from it, writes Tamara Pearson. Watching a video of Jim Carrey painting, you can see he has a wonderful sense…
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Boccaccio on the Black Death
What a creative way to spend time in isolation and to chronicle the effects on human civilization. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! One of the primary sources on the outbreak was the Italian writer and poet Giovanni Boccaccio (l. 1313-1375 CE), best known for his work The Decameron (written 1349-1353 CE), which tells the…
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Are Ethics and Creativity in Conflict?
In an effort to be creative and stand out in our modern world, are we sometimes forgetting the basic fundamentals of how to treat to each other? Fascinating highlights of a panel discussion on the intersection of ethics and creativity. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! “Creativity has the potential to lead innovation, disrupt the status…
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The Future of Human Work Is Imagination, Creativity, and Strategy
The workplace and our place in it, is constantly evolving. Exciting times are on the horizon as expectations for contribution at work become more interesting. Hope you enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! It seems beyond debate: Technology is going to replace jobs, or, more precisely, the people holding those jobs. Few industries, if any,…
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Money, happiness and human needs
In many Western societies, somebody declared that the pursuit of happiness is job number one. Everything we do should be in service to making ourselves feel happier. Closely followed by follow your passion, and other such platitudes. It starts early in life, with parents applying pressure to the experience of a child growing up. The…