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When you cre­ate some­thing, the first test is to engage and inter­est your­self. Cre­ativ­ity is a gift, an instant of self-nourishment, of being gen­er­ous to your­self. You can write, draw, paint, play music, what­ever keeps your atten­tion; but you have to be will­ing to do it for your­self. Feed­ing your inter­est and atten­tion engages your […]

Cuth­bert the appren­tice cus­to­dian looks around the vast room in despair. Boxes, con­tain­ers, books and glass­ware are strewn across the thick oak shelves, the heavy glass cab­i­nets that had been mitered and glazed by long for­got­ten appren­tices like him, the end­lessly long wooden tables. Every­thing in this stor­age room is man­dated to be made of […]

Take a few min­utes to watch this.  Here are a few high­lights: “Cre­ativ­ity in edu­ca­tion is as impor­tant as lit­er­acy and we should treat it with the same sta­tus.” “Chil­dren have an extra­or­di­nary capac­ity for inno­va­tion.” “My con­tention is that all kids have excep­tional tal­ent and we squan­der it pretty ruth­lessly.” “If you’re not prepared […]

This sketch is from Leonardo’s note­books in the 16th cen­tury. The note­books con­firm the cat­alyz­ing impact curios­ity has on cre­ativ­ity. Da Vinci method­i­cally observed and recorded — the mechan­i­cal attrib­utes of the human body, of the phys­i­cal world, of the pat­terns of thought. He had a remark­able gift for record­ing his obser­va­tions. His mind’s eye […]

Fre­quent and sub­stan­tial con­ver­sa­tions with oth­ers cre­ates a sense of well-being, accord­ing to a psy­chol­ogy study reported in Sci­ence Daily this morn­ing. Greater well-being was related to spend­ing less time alone and more time talk­ing to oth­ers: The hap­pi­est par­tic­i­pants spent 25% less time alone and 70% more time talk­ing than the unhap­pi­est par­tic­i­pants. In […]

Be con­fi­dent in see­ing what is in front of you. From Sci­en­tific Amer­i­can, a rebut­tal to the phe­nom­e­non of pos­i­tive psy­chol­ogy, summed up in the equa­tion: H = S + C + V (Hap­pi­ness = your Set range + the Cir­cum­stances of your life + the fac­tors under your Vol­un­tary con­trol) “Human intel­lec­tual progress, such as […]