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M&D Funny how this guy Dan Harlow has the same kind of thing about how we are less creative when we get older and it has something to do with how we are being tought in school. Check out this Blog -
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Creativity is usually stimulated out of necessity and therefore it is the true mother of invention. The necessity of invention is usually a result of common sense. When looked upon from hindsight, some may call it 20/20 vision, or as in the KTR Club, we call it Stupid Rule Number 20. I read in the Wall Street Journal, that major corporations spend over $50 billion dollars every year on their management by sending them to weekend fun camps to boost their creativity? After investing in these corporate expenses, the companies are still left with wondering if the fun camps are doing any good. Well in my opinion, sending their management away on fun farms on the weekends is a waste of their customer's money and they should be hiring the creative people from the get go. Wining and dining the manager isn't going to do them any more good than a good piece of ass. I'm still left wondering if that isn't what the fun farms are all about anyway. Above all, they should help out the creative private inventors instead of killing them off as the GATT treaty encourages them to do so. I read in a book written by an inventor Richard C. Levy, that some experts think many schools squelch creativity by the way they perpetuate entrenched thinking. According to Business Week, test show that a child’s creativity is at 90% between the ages five and seven. By the age 40 most adults are about two percent as creative as they were at age five. It amazed me when I read in the newspaper article written by Ben Feller at the Associated Press in January of 2006, about a study of college students flunking-out on literacy tasks. He writes: "More that 50 percent of students at four-year schools and more than 75 percent at two-yearschool colleges lacked the skills to perform complex literary tasks. That means they could not interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rated and annual fees or summarize results of parental involvement in schools." Boy if that is what generation "Y" is like; I imagine generation "Z" will be a bunch of babbling idiots. However, he did mention: "compared with all adults with similar levels of education, college students had superior skills in searching and using information from texts and documents." I'd guess that's a result of cheating. Dean K. Simonton, a psychologist at the University of California said creative people usually don't have dull, predictable childhoods and an exceptional high IQ may mean something in some fields, but studies have shown that the threshold for creativity is an IQ of about 130. After that -- Business Week reports: IQ doesn’t make much difference – such as nonintellectual traits like – personal values and personality become more important. Have you seen the other Book Excerpts?
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