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POPS Can boredom becomes a tool for learning and creativity...? "Boredom as a temporary state is another matter, and in part reflects the obvious: that the brain has concluded there is nothing new or useful it can learn from an environment, a person, an event, a paragraph. But it is far from a passive neural shrug. Using brain-imaging technology, neuroscientists have found that the brain is highly active when disengaged, consuming only about 5 percent less energy in its resting “default state” than when involved in routine tasks, according to Dr. Mark Mintun, a professor of radiology at Washington University in St. Louis"
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POPSHistoric Figures That Were Celibate He spent years inventing things he never got credit for, like the light bulb and radio, and even believed he could control the weather. He also felt that sex was a drain on creativity and completely pushed aside any woman that was interested in him. Sarah Bernhardt, a famous actress, tried her hardest to woo him but he considered her to be little more than a distraction from inventing a death ray. When asked about marriage, he replied: “I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”
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POPSComputers and education Do we need another research centre to find obvious answers? Only when schools are prepared to embrace the information Age/Knowledge Economy paradigm and look afresh at what 'education' is, will we advance. 21st Century tools do not sit comfortably in 19th century institutions, run by unimaginative, autocratic 20th century bureaucrats.
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POPSLeadership Skills? Follow the Leaders Our world today has a serious shortage of ethical leadership. For many years now, deviant behavior in corporate leaders has been magnified by the news media and touted by the entertainment industry. Leaders who hold the highest offices in the world have often abused their power with few negative consequences. As a result, the moral fiber of the workplace has diminished considerably as workers follow the lead of their often misguided managers. Managers who have serious performance issues with their employees may need to take a long, hard look into the ethical mirror of their business establishments and see what type of leadership reflection they see.
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POPSTypewriter Art This is an amazing story of a man born with spastic cerebral palsy. Though disabled in many ways, he taught himself to create detailed pictures using one finger on a typewriter that resembled pencil or charcoal drawings. Another tribute to the indomitable human spirit.
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POPSSleep on it. I've been taking Korean ginseng for about a week. It seems to be enhancing my creativity. I'm going to try this.
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POPSWeb Design Company - Web Design Services - Web Design Solutions We believe that your website should reflect your brand, and more importantly, should meet your business needs. We achieve this by analyzing your business needs and mapping them to those of targeted end users of your website. When we work for you, we are also working for your customers, by offering them a pleasant and rewarding experience with a site that looks great, loads fast, is easy to use, and influences them towards you.
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POPSBoredom a sickness or a creative tool? "In experiments in the 1970s, psychiatrists showed that participants completing word-association tasks quickly tired of the job once obvious answers were given; granted more time, they began trying much more creative solutions" "In a recent paper in The Cambridge Journal of Education, Teresa Belton and Esther Priyadharshini of East Anglia University in England reviewed decades of research and theory on boredom, and concluded that it’s time that boredom “be recognized as a legitimate human emotion that can be central to learning and creativity.”
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POPSThe Purpose of Blog Comments? I agree with Mimi in that I don't put my work out there for criticism. I am happy to take comments, but I do my work for me. I love sharing it, but I am my own best critic and don't need others. I love it that people from all over the world and friends I don't see very often can see what I am doing and keep up. I heard a great quote while I was away: Creativity is an Expression of Joy. The world, I think, needs less criticism and more support for creativity.
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POPSLatent Love of Dolls
Deirdre sent me a link to Mimi Kirchner's blog and it made me start thinking about dolls. I have to admit I have always loved dolls: Barbie and friends, baby dolls that you could dress and feed, soft huggable stuffed dolls. I loved dressing up dolls. The dolls always looked glamourous and could walk in their tarty shoes, which wasn't always the case for me! Dolls always provided an opportunity to play house and have things go my way for once. Dolls are also a great opportunity for creativity. As I have been washing and pressing the fabric from my trip to the East Coast, I have been cutting off schnibbles. I keep thinking to myself what great hair it would be, which further makes me think that Art Warrior and Mother Warrior may need a new friend. Mimi's dolls are really creative and beautiful, but they also have a lot of personality. They are also BIG, and, presumably, huggable. I am really glad to have the blogosphere accessible to be, because it is just a fountain of cr
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