Educación y métodos educativos

Creativity means come up ideas that are both new and valuable. To come up with valuable ideas, you need a huge amount of knowledge and experience -- very extensive knowledge of your field. To come up with new ideas, you need a flexible mind, like a child, able to whimsically explore a wide range of ideas, and make connections no one made before -- active leaps of imagination. Children cannot come up with valuable ideas, because they don't have enough knowledge and experience. Most adults cannot come up with new ideas because their thinking is too tight and inflexible. Robert Greene describes mental exercises designed to enable more flexibility in thinking -- learning to change one's mind, embracing not knowing, learning to feel comfortable in chaos, thinking like an outsider by getting training from an unrelated field. Our culture limits creativity by requiring us to rigidly separate 'play' from 'work'. Our minds are free during our "free time", but we rarely accomplish anything creative in our exploratory free time. At work, our minds become tight as we try to fit narrow roles.

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