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Ninety-nine per cent of education policymakers in the world think that creativity is about solving a problem or finding the correct answer. But that is a 
skewed understanding, says development psychologist Howard Gardner, whose book on multiple intelligences (1983) changed the field of intelligence studies.
Taking alone time to reflect, experiment and frame answers is the key to creative intelligence, he contends.
Gardner is urging Indian and Chinese teachers, and those with education systems that prize correct answers above reflective experimentation, to emulate Read the whole post »
Guest Post by Media Professor and Blogger, Jane Friedman
‘Passion has become a cheap word. I’m starting to roll my eyes when I hear it. But it hasn’t always been this way.
‘It all started when I read a 2010 post by Siddhartha Herdegen, Why You Don’t Need Passion to Be Successful. It was the first time I questioned one of my dearly held personal values: passion for my day-to-day work.
‘For the past year, I’ve been on the admissions committee for the E-Media Division at the University of Cincinnati, and I’ve become numb to Read the whole post »
I’ve just got the jacket for ‘Before The Fall’ (the sequel to After The Rising) over from the designer, the rather wonderful Andrew Brown at Design For Writers. 
I couldn’t wait to show it to you.
Andrew and I are hoping you’ll like it as much as we do. I reckon he’s excelled himself this time.
The book is going through final Read the whole post »
Margaret Atwood: “Every tool has three sides. The sharp side (the upside). The blunt side (the down side). 
And the stupid side. The side you didn’t anticipate, whose consequences you did not intend. The side that sees you Read the whole post »
Our 21st century problem is not too little but too much. Even those of us who feel we don’t have enough are suffering from surfeit. 
Too much choice.
We hoard, afraid to let go. We flick mindlessly from one thing to another, never really settling. Or we put up with Read the whole post »
I’ve been writing a lot about creative intentions and thinking about my own for 2012. Now that the new year is settling in, I’d like to share some of what I’ll be up to over the coming 12 
months.
1. PUBLISHING. It’s no news that I’m a convert to indie publishing, and have taken my rights back from Penguin so I can publish my own work as ebook titles and print-on-demand (POD). Just before Christmas, I Read the whole post »
So the first week of January is over. Are the new year’s creative intentions beginning to flag?
It’s understandable. Finishing a task is an event. An outcome. A visible achievement. But starting is just starting.
Take running a marathon or publishing a book. Crossing the finishing line, having a book launch: these are events. Life before looks different to life after.
Starting isn’t like that. When you Read the whole post »
We’re all trained to notice the gap. Between what we have and what we want, between where we are and where we hope we’re going, between the person we are and who we’d like to be.
That’s where the new year’s resolutions slip in, even though we know they don’t work. Through that gap. That hollow feeling of not doing, having or being enough.
How about this for an Read the whole post »
They don’t publish
the good news.
The good news is published
by us.
We have a special edition every moment,
and we need you to read it.
The good news is that you are alive,
and the linden tree is still there,
standing firm in the harsh winter.
The good news is that you have Read the whole post »
“A new year’s resolution goes in one year and out another”. Oscar Wilde. 
A creative intention differs from a new year’s resolution in a number of ways:
