Fractured Bloughtscreativity | Fractured Bloughts http://fracturedbloughts.rolandhesz.com Musings about work and life Mon, 10 May 2010 19:52:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19827 Education, creativity and school http://fracturedbloughts.rolandhesz.com/2008/07/08/education-creativity-and-school/ http://fracturedbloughts.rolandhesz.com/2008/07/08/education-creativity-and-school/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:21:00 +0000 Roland Hesz http://fracturedbloughts.heszroland.hu/?p=154


Thank you to Bertalan Mesk? from ScienceRoll.

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

And I think everyone should pay attention to the mistakes part – around after the sixth minute – and the “educated out of creativity” bit. We always write and say that making mistakes is human, we actively punish it all the time. Watch the video, and try to imagine what it would be if we did not chop off the wings of the kids. At least in the sense of not being terrified of making mistakes.

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]]> http://fracturedbloughts.rolandhesz.com/2008/07/08/education-creativity-and-school/feed/ 0 Creativity, brainwork and time http://fracturedbloughts.rolandhesz.com/2007/12/01/creativity-brainwork-and-time/ http://fracturedbloughts.rolandhesz.com/2007/12/01/creativity-brainwork-and-time/#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:31:00 +0000 Roland Hesz http://heszroland.hu/?p=49 Well, who would have guessed. Noise, stress and lack of time will not make people think faster or better, they just tend to find a quick and easy solution and move forward. If you don’t believe, just visit getFreshMinds, and he (she?) gives you some examples, including this study from the Ohio State University.

To be honest, I suspected that dumping hundreds of tasks with aggressively scheduled deadlines on someone does not make him think faster, actually, not even suspected, I experienced and saw it happen time to time.

Of course, all the quick and dirty solutions are temporary – it will have to hold until monday only -, and are corrected and replaced with a better, streamlined and lemon scented solution as soon as there is time, which means they stay in the product forever plus a day.

Time pressure and stress kills creativity and think-time. But we all know that software development is not about creativity.

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