July 2012
Beginner
298 pages
4h 23m
English
15
Encouraging Creativity
You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.
– Jack London
In this chapter you will:
Creativity is what sets us apart from the animal world. True, many animals from fish and crabs to dogs and chimpanzees display elements of creativity when they learn to use tools or adopt smart hunting (or hiding) strategies. But there is no known species that creates at the same astonishing rate as humans.
We are simply driven continuously to create new art, sculpture, pottery, tools, poetry, music, scientific inventions and, well, the list is endless. Even the ...