Article #917
Humans seek meaning as a necessary means for survival. In part, people do this through their creative ability to rationalize. It may be considered that a part of seeking meaning has to do with maintaining consistency and inner balance at any cost. Sometimes individuals create the need to defend and rationalize decisions and actions, even if they are wrong. Seeking meaning is part of the process of inner and outer growth.

Article #911
When individuals do improvisation exercises they fall into the moment of expression and creation, forgetting to judge and be self-critical and instead follow the impulse of instantly responding to what is in the moment. This activity has an amazing effect on developing belief in oneself.

Article #910
How to wake up, snap out of it, and let your everyday world be inspiring again.

Article #905
Getting along with others at times takes a great deal of creative thinking. Creativity is the source of everything that exists.

Post #904
Friday Video: TED Talk – At this school in Tokyo, five-year-olds cause traffic jams and windows are for Santa to climb into. Meet: the world’s cutest kindergarten, designed by architect Takaharu Tezuka.

Post #903
Friday Video: TED Talk – All of us want to invent that game-changing product, launch that successful company, write that best-selling book. And yet so few of us actually do it.

Post #902
Friday Video: TED Talk – What’s the secret to unlocking the creativity hidden inside your daily work, and giving every great idea a chance? Harvard professor Linda Hill, co-author of “Collective Genius,” has studied some of the world’s most creative companies to come up with a set of tools and tactics to keep great ideas flowing — from everyone in the company, not just the designated “creatives.”

Post #897
Friday Video: TED Talk – Shimpei Takahashi thinks we should forget about analyzing data or sales figures and just come up with ideas — lots and lots of ideas.

Post #894
Friday Video: TED Talk – Does science ruin the magic of life? In this grumpy but charming monologue, Robin Ince makes the argument against.

Post #890
Friday Video: TED Talk – Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we’ve seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. Diversity advocate Vernā Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups.