The Creativity Crisis by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
I received a handful of emails and phone messages about last weeks edition of Newsweek magazine called The Creativity Crisis. I found the article fascinating due to the research that is available in the US from a series of tasks that were designed by E. Paul Torrance to measure creativity. Interestingly enough, since 1990 the scores have declined significantly. “The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ.”
You can read this entire article by clicking here. Along with the article at the link you can listen to an interview with the authors of the article. It is VERY interesting. I suggest you share this link with friends and colleagues.
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