The MediaVillage Articles Club – Spring Selections

So Jennings and I picked up a bottle of red on our way to Articles Club only to be met with a lovely surprise our hostess Chelsea had prepared a signature Club cocktail three parts gin two parts grapefruit juice one part champagne Honestly Iamp8217m not sure how many parts of each but it was a healthy mixNow is it the most creative concoction Probably not considering the abundance of highly innovative bartending happening right here in New York City Sometimes however you have to be resourceful and work with the ingredients you have which is one of the conversations we had around this monthamp8217s theme creativity Is creativity learned or inherited How does one become more creative What is the essence of creativity We selected and discussed articles below that touched on all these questionsMissed our selections from MarchApril Find them hereamp160My pick The Messy Business of Reinventing HappinessBy Austin Carr Fast CompanyWhy did you pick this article When I think of creativity I immediately think of the Disney Company and its legacy of ingenuity I recalled reading this article last year and thought it a great example of creativity in conflict Austin Carr explores what happened when Disneyamp8217s corporate brass set out to modernize Disney World with a more efficient guest tracking system much to the displeasure of some Disney employees While the new system seems a bit Big Brother it is effective at crowd control and puts into question the relationships between creativity technology and the bottom line The article spurred a lot of thought on the obstacles to creativity at a major corporation spanning so many divisions with so many personalities Itamp8217s also an interesting reread since the April departure of Disney chief Tom Staggsamp160Chelseaamp8217s pick How to Raise a Creative Child Step One Back OffBy Adam Grant The New York TimesWhy did you pick this article My piece focused on strategies for raising a creative child Should parents give their kids lots of tools with which to be creative or back off and let them use their imaginations Stepping back and letting kids figure out their own passions it seems results in more creativity and originality as they grow up There39s no right way to raise a creative kid so I wanted to hear the group39s stories about how their own parents cultivated their creativity I loved how everyone shared some of the imaginative decisions they made as kids from crafting inventive Halloween costumes to playing pretend in the backyardamp160Jenningsamp8217 pick Why I Taught Myself to ProcrastinateBy Adam Grant The New York Times amp160Why did you pick this article I picked Adam Grantamp8217s New York Timesamp8217 oped entitled amp8220Why I Taught Myself to Procrastinateamp8221 mostly because the title alone struck me as oddamp160 Who doesnamp8217t just naturally procrastinate I can recall many instances of furiously attempting to finish term papers in the library hours before they were due or drinking two gallons of coffee to make sure enough material was haphazardly crammed into my head for a final that was in less than 12 hours I was never what Grant calls a amp8220precrastinatoramp8221 someone who has the amp8220urge to start a task immediately and finish it as soon as possibleamp8221 I thrive under the pressure of a situation which probably in hindsight gave me somewhat of a lack in creativity When the deadline overshadows the creative process one tends to hit a rut in producing what could be the best project possible Grantamp8217s attempt to learn to procrastinate by just writing pieces at a time and leaving sentences unfinished certainly sounds like common sense for creativity When the creative juices are flowing what happens when you suddenly turn that valve off and return to it hours or days later In the writeramp8217s case he rewrote much of his work after thinking of new ideas and new ways to present it Itamp8217s definitely an interesting debate and now that my period of standardized library procrastination and over caffeinating is over maybe I should revisit the behavior in search of more creative purposesEditoramp8217s Note Jennings contributed her reasoning behind selecting this piece right before deadline amp160Lyndsayamp8217s pick Can Creativity Be LearnedBy Cody C Delistraty The AtlanticWhy did you pick this articleMy article focused on a few areas all of which I found interesting in different ways The main focal point was on the source of creativity whether it stems from nature nurture or some combination of both I found it very interesting to think about nature vs nurture and how it related to the case studies presented in the article as well as my own personal experiences Additionally there was a portion devoted to two archetypes of creatives those that have a definitive vision and work towards it and those that have general ideas but less specifics in mind This seemed like an interesting take that I had never heard of before and not one I was sure I agreed with which made it a great point of discussion at Articles ClubThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet management or associated bloggersamp160

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