The brain cannot leave raw information alone. Given a scattering of dots, it draws lines between them. Given noise, it hears a voice.
A story, which opens Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, is where I want to start, because it captures something a fourteen-month due-diligence process is structurally incapable of noticing about itself: it can be flawless and still be answering the wrong question. Logic needs the “gut” to decide…
The question our schools must answer is not whether children should be creative. They already are. The question is whether we will have the wisdom — and the courage — to stop educating it out of them
Art arrives by a different road entirely, bypassing the locked doors and finding the person still waiting inside. It is a small, quietly devastating observation, and it captures something that neuroscience has been methodically proving ever since: that engaging with art — making it, experiencing it, losing yourself in it — does something profound and measurable to the human brain.
Gossip is part of our culture. It has fuelled tabloid newspapers, TV shows, and tell-all books and has found itself in many company cultures. The problem is that gossip, more often than not, tends to be negative. It’s a way of talking about someone who isn’t present and to whom you wouldn’t talk in the same way if they were directly in front of you.
The 6 questions of Socratic Questioning are still highly relevant today and indispensable to problem-solving. Problem-solving and critical thinking are indispensable to any creative pursuit or design thinking, where integrity, authenticity, and truth are important. In fact, the Socratic method of questioning is the essence of critical thinking.
