Is There A Creativity Decline? Does It Matter?
So, is Creativity declining? The short answer is yes. It has been in America since 1990. From 1990 to 2008 there has been a steady decline in creativity in the US, according to research conducted by Kyung Hee Kim at the College of William & Mary. While I...
Jobs That Robots Will Not Replace
Are robots taking our jobs? Over the last few weeks, I’ve written a few posts around machines and robots and how they’ll be kicking you out of your job as soon as they build one that can, which won’t be very long at all. You can read those here, and here. According to...
Are We As Smart As We’re Ever Gonna Be?
Are we about as smart as we’re ever gonna be? Put another way, have we reached the top end of our brain’s ability to think, without some intervention from ourselves, or at least the cleverest of the cleverest selves among us? This is the question I was...
The Theory of Left Brain and Right Brain isn’t what you think it is
I must confess I’ve watched this clip three times to get my head around it (both halves, hahaha). Partly because it’s a massive chunk of information presented in a very short space of time, and partly because the animation kidnapped my mind, enough for me...Creativity, it’s just like Reading and Writing
When you meet someone who can’t read and write and would like to learn, you never ever step back and assess their ability, or analyze their character and personality traits to assess whether they can or not? The majority of us will help them find a tutor or...
