RAH: Collaboration, a tool for creativity
And there’s another area where handwriting wins – collaboration. Sometimes you need more brains than the one you got, and a group of people huddling around a computer just doesn’t cut it. You need a table, paper, pens. Trust that these two simple acts – handwriting and collaborating – can produce something big. That they can solve the drive-you-crazy problems.
That act of movement – hand on paper, pushing pencil – is key. It unlocks a portion of your brain that digital turns off.
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Our newest member, Mandy Palacio educates us on energy and spirit at WECREATE.
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BigThink hopes to get at the physical and psychological roots of chaos
The way I sum it up is that brains are automatic, but people are free because people are joining the social group and in that group are laws to live by. We can understand brains to the nth degree, but it’s not going to, in any way, interfere with the fact that taking responsibility in a social network is done at that level.Michael Gazzaniga, one of the world’s leading researchers in cognitive neuroscience
Gazzaniga suspects that narrative coherence helps us to navigate the world – to know where we’re coming from and where we’re headed. It tells us where to place our trust and why. One reason we may love fiction, he says, is that it enables us to find our bearings in possible future realities, or to make better sense of our own past experiences. What stories give us, in the end, is reassurance. And as childish as it may seem, that sense of security – that coherent sense of self – is essential to our survival.
Think about this article the next time you are listening to your favorite tunes!
