How Schools Kill Creativity.

Here's another video. This one is by Ken Robinson about how our schools, and our society really, helps to kill our creativity rather than encourage it. Creativity is something I have been thinking about for a while now. I've finally realized that intelligence shouldn't really be measured by the amount of information we can cram into our heads, but rather our ability to create solutions to problems, or just create a song or piece of art. In fact I believe that when we constantly fill our head with information, we leave less room for truly innovative ideas.

There are some interesting ideas in this video about how even parents can stifle creativity. I paid close attetion to this since I have to young ones and have done some of the that Ken talks about here.

Anyway, this is a powerful speach that I thought some of you would enjoy.

The Paradox of Choice.

This is a video I found by Barry Schwartz. He talks about how freedom of choice can actually be harmful rather than helpful. It can actually paralyze a person instead of setting them free.
I think this really describes a whole lot of people in the "Western" societies.

With so many choices in life, it can really be hard to make decisions.

I've studied Sociology for 3 years and I really think this is one of the huge problems in our culture.
I know it's 19 minutes long, but trust me, it's worth the watch.