Jul 29, 2024 | Creativity
I’m not sure of the Genesis of the so-called ‘Big C and Small C Creativity’ concept? It could be Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, or Mark Runco, or Kozbelt et al, or even Jeff Mauzy, according to the interwebs. Whomever coined it first, I’m calling Big...
Jul 17, 2024 | Creativity, Education
Apparently Jean-Jacques Rousseau (famous French philosopher) did his best thinking on trips he made alone and on foot. He called them ‘thought walks’. He’s not alone in this. Aristotle, Socrates, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sigmund Freud, Henry David...
May 13, 2024 | AI, Creativity
What a remarkable 2 weeks, watching the DA (Democratic Alliance), then Adobe and lastly Apple (literally) explode many thinking brains, by seemingly forgetting to invite any intelligent feedback on their adverts. THE DA Chronologically (I went with an alphabetical...
May 1, 2024 | Creativity, Play, Relationships
It was a conversation with my daughter that cemented the idea that Play is what keeps our lives from spiraling into a dull, lifeless and mundane experience, filled only with the so-called important things, like study and work and finances and routine and, and,...
Mar 25, 2024 | Creativity, Education
What’s your answer to the question asked in the image above? I recently drew (with chalk) the image above on a piece of tar where people I knew would see it (mostly adults and teenagers). I then asked them what their answers were, and the vast majority replied...
Mar 12, 2024 | Creativity, Flow
I sat across the table from Lucia, curious about why he had struggled to complete some of the activities in The Little Book of Play? He had struggled with activities that invited him to engage with someone else (especially a stranger). ‘What will people think of...
