Month: November 2020
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Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men
What is the patriarchy and how do we creatively fix it? Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! In response to my recent newsletter, which I named “Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning as a Response to Patriarchy,” I received two comments from men that led me to choose to write this piece. In two very different ways, they pointed…
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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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Creative Service
I wonder what it would take to inspire an incoming government to creatively serve their people? What would the requirements be? What kind of mindset would the elected officials need to adopt in order to do this kind work? Is the bureaucracy so deeply ingrained that this kind of change is not possible? What is…
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Who Is Not Paying Their Share?
Are we not judged by how we take care of the weakest in society? Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! While that rhetoric is helpful when running for the leadership of a political party, over 95 percent of Canadians don’t join political parties and Conservatives would be better served to focus on delivering on Canadians’…
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The Cost of a Full Basic Income
Why can’t global governments get creative around the idea of UBI? Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! Universal Basic Income (UBI) – a policy that would provide a regular, cash income to every citizen without means test or work requirement – is surprisingly inexpensive. The United Kingdom could introduce a full UBI (one large enough…