Time wasting or mind stretching?

Try this:

http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/games.shtml

The Possibility Virus

I subscribe to ‘Outside the Lines’ - a newsletter by Canadian Michael Bungay Stanier. This month’s is SO wide-ranging and certainly thought provoking. He’s posted it on his ‘Possibility Virus’ website www.possibilityvirus.com/blog/2008/04/07/do-you-want-to-cheat-death/ Some of its a bit gruesome or eerie but keep going and it’ll get you thinking about change.

Creativity and Education

Go have a look at this talk by Sir Ken Robinson on TED www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66 . This very entertaining talk is about the serious subject of how we educate people out of creativity. Very much food for thought.

Ken Robinson was the Chairman, of a committee that produced a report for the british Government in 1999 called ‘All our Futures’ www.dfes.gov.uk/naccce/index1.shtml . I was given some statistics out of this report on the measure of genius level of creativity by age:
Age 3-5 98% have Genius level creativity
8-10 32%
13-15 10%
25+ 2%

How disturbing is this!

I was asked the question recently - ‘how creative are you in your life?’ and I find myself making surprising discoveries of instances today, especially having released myself from the definition of creative = art. However, I have also discovered how often I constrict myself from achieving and richer life, usually by allowing time pressure to get to me. More action required!

What I do know is that I find sailing well a creative experience. I was helming a beautiful 50’ yacht ‘Atlantis’ down the channel to Dover the other day and had a lot of fun steering precisely right in the waves. I was just watching the waves with total concentration, no other thoughts or self-talk. Beautiful.