Posted: 1 year ago

In the meeting of August 30, Creativity: A Crisis In Our Time, some research was quoted that points out that every cell in our body, including our brains, is replaced with new cells over a period of a few years.  I've heard the number quoted from two years to seven years.  Since that is evidently the case, why should we grow old?  My personal belief is that it is the historical assumption of the human race that we MUST grow old...and therefore stop being creative.

I reject this assumption.  If my body, including my brain, is no older than a few years, then except for the accumulation of wisdom, I intend to continue to live and be creative until my purpose on this planet has been fulfilled.  Even if that takes another 75 or more years.

The program states another bit of research: that 5-year olds use up to 80% of their creative abilidy, but by the time they are 12 years old, that is reduced to 2% and remains there the rest of their life.  Isn't age 5 about the time a typical child enters school?  To me, that is the most serious indictment of our education system.  As the article says, children, and even college adults, are taught to conform and be "good citizens".

It's time we changed all that!!!

Posted: 1 year ago

Here here Bob.

Agreed on all counts.

Especially the bit about schools. I have been very careful to countermand that without undermining (too much) of the authority. Miserly loves company as they say, so if one person (or most of the world in this case) chooses not to see fairies and unicorns, they want to make sure the magic is gone for everyone else.

A well known religious person said 'be like the children'. I'm certain he didn't mean 'wear a diaper' but rather be accepting of all others, laugh a lot, see the best in everything, trust, be inquisitive, and so on.

Viva Creativity!

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having first sown.

It does not do to leap a 20 ft chasm in two ten foot jumps.

Posted: 1 year ago

Oh, and it was Prez Jose who wrote today's program. I have since fixed it.

Thank's for pointing that out.

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having first sown.

It does not do to leap a 20 ft chasm in two ten foot jumps.

Posted: 1 year ago

All that I can say to what you two have already said is:

TREERFHO THE EEYS MAY HAVE IT BUT THE MNID CVIECNEOS IT AND LKOCS IT ITNO PALCE. FOR SOME THIS LKEIOCNG IT LSTAS A LMFIEITE AND IT TKEAS A MATNEL, PCLAYSHIL OR ENOMOTAIL SCHOK TO RFROEM THIS CTIFROMY ITNO A CAETRVIE WAY TO PALY WITH WHAT THE EYE SEES AND THE IGISHNT CTRAES AS A NEW, PLSSOBIE RLTIAEY.

cviecneos is conceives; lkeiocng is locking; lmfiete is lifetime; matnel is mental; playshil is physical; enomotail is emotional; rfroem is reform; crtifromy is conformity; caetrvie is creative; igishnit is insight and I am sure that all reading this will figure out the rest. This is more from the Cambridge research into how students can read, given the first and last letters and all the others jumbled in 'bweeetn'. But I am too old for this- ha!

There is more on this in this Forum, COUNTING, READING, RIGHTING AND SPELLING. Try some of those exercises!

And Bob, my visual work is my signature.