“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.” -Stanley Kubrick
Such profound words, but It has to start early though. Otherwise , it either becomes too late or cumbersome because overtime that energy of interest or motivation is depleted and converted into fear or enervation.
True. Actual learning only happens based on interest. You can't standardise interests. Having a standardised curriculum at a young age is an insane idea. And that's just one part of a rotten system.
my kids grade 4 and grade 8 this ...are doing homeschooling and ive never seen them reason so progressively ,think indepently and incharge of their reasoning capacity and their level of imagination is out of this world .I am proud of the decision i took
I had the pleasure of working for the George Land and Beth Jarman organization, Leadership 2000, and many of the ideas and concepts like this one have stuck with me ... at the office, we would have a phrase when we might be working on something, even a trivial issue, that had multiple outcomes ... our shot out would be, 'What are ALL the ways we can do this ..?!.'. Such great fun and fantastic memories with marvelous world-class clients and Associate Partners.
When I was about 6 years old I was taken for a test such as those spoken of in this talk. They are not written tests of course. These tests have to do with hand-eye coordination, visual acuity, pattern recognition, etc. The tests I took were not presented as "tests" to me, my mom took me to a place where "a nice man is going to show you some interesting things and let you play with things and draw some pictures". I was a natural born artist, I was bored with school and spent more time drawing and daydreaming than paying attention in class. My teacher suggested the child psychologist my mom took me to visit that day. I didn't know what was up for several years. My grandfather, who was always my most fervent champion for becoming an artist, finally asked if I remembered that day with the nice man. I said YES! it had been really fun, and the man was like no one I had ever met before -- other than my grandfather. He told me that it was a sort of IQ test, and that the results in the report from this "nice man" said I was a savant in art and very intelligent over all. It said I was as advanced as most adults in my pattern recognition ability , and in drawing and painting. I went on to be a successful professional artist after graduating from high school. I never had the slightest inclination to go to higher education, being an autodidact, and polymath. I was a special effects artist in Hollywood for some 20 years. I also worked as a designer and model maker in the theme park industry. I later did quite well with freelance fine art sculpture and design, finally doing bronze and other metal statues and statuettes. I have always been fascinated by socio-political subjects and taught myself many skills in that area. I now am mainly involved in Forensic History studies. \\][//
I'm 29, and seriously lack creativity. I'm going to try and do this to become more creative: meet more creative people and share ideas; read more (fiction and non-fiction); try and find time to just think and come up with creative ideas.
Read this book, it's amazing! - "Ideas on Demand: A crash course on creativity. Bust creativity blocks, 10x your ideas, and become an idea machine. (10x Impact)" by Miliind Harrdas.
I came here after knowing that 98% of 5-year-olds have had imaginative thinking for a long time. After finishing this video I realize that I'm very lucky to still have them at the age of 19 right now, after 12 years of my teachers and parents trying to suppress my imaginative thinking lol. We all must come together and change our education system asap, this can't go on any longer.
I would love to see the results for populations of children who have been unschooled, or autonomously home educated. I'd like to think that the results would be different. John Taylor Gatto implied that the reason schools had a dumbing down effect was that they didn't allow a child to follow their own thoughts and do what they needed to do in the moment, due to curricula, timetables, and the Victorian idea of concentration and discipline which makes everything hard work, no matter how enjoyable. Maybe that is the effect at work here too.
I am a future educator and I can tell you that my philosophy of learning will be centered on Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences and I will take steps to spark neurotransmitters in my students' brains.
@caliandris Check the system of teaching in Finland. The highest scores and most success rates. Simply no homework, kids discover insects while climbing trees at the schoolyard is what gets them enough motivation to attend college biology classes during snowstorms and became scientists. Yes, that simple!
@@tamimbaker92 Finland system has a severe downside, as you can confirm with this: The only scientific Nobel prize gotten by a Finnish was Artturi Ilmari Virtanen in 1945, for achievements of a century ago. The only Fields Medal was Lars Ahlfors again for achievements almost a century of age. So much for such 'great' educational system? Take, for instance, a country with severe economic and social problems like Brazil, produced Artur Avila who got the Fields Medal in 2014, and had 3 other guys close to getting it (Marcelo Viana, Gugu Moreira and Fernando Coda Marquez all 3 in recent years), and IMPA (the top mathematical institution of Brazil) has likely more math genius, Fields Medal winners caliber on the making. How come Finland, with a supposedly uber superior educational system, doesn't have an equivalent production of talent? Isn't such 'perfect' system killing the hunger for greatness somehow? too much relying in 'equality' on 'not putting pressure on them' on them being 'happy' (which could be translated of having them not having further ambition)? Or what other explanation would you have for failing to produce world class scientific outliers?
@@dartherus you measure succes by nobel prizes? This is exactly the essence of the problem. As a whole society, the Finnish thrive more than most others. Creativity is needed for out of the box thinking. We’re currently in such a box we can’t (and won’t) think our way out of it.
I feel the fear of failure whenever I had a job that required periodic "tests" of skills and knowledge. Suddenly, I would be unable to remember anything needed for a good score. I am college educated and felt this deeply. Crazy.
I believe I too was given this test as a child. Also I really feel I have gone back to a, "90%" at one major point in my life but of course I can't say how I am today. Now back then I tapped into that imagination and went from a class grade of an F and a professor saying I was not meant for that class. I took the class again with a different professor that's teaching style lit up our imaginations.. I passed the class with over an A, it was embarrassing to award me the extra credits I earned. I also was exempted from my final to fill out a questioner on how I had such a huge change in my grades and what helped. It's amazing how you can "tap" into your inner child as they are calling it, just with that sort of approach even in teaching.
Google "George Land NASA creativity test". He used a simple test of divergent thinking (imagination). Small children have tons of imagination. The more they are taught to conform, the less they use imagination. Adults are particularly weak imaginers unless they practice engaging in imagining possibilities (also known as possibility thinking).
This is why we created Zedu Plus, where we invite kids to learn by finding their resources and where they can understand and create through personalized projects based on their level of knowledge.
So where was the part of the research that intuitively should follow? Where are results of this test done on adults that never attended school? Are their result still so "extraordinarily" great?
@Fi Hills I tried the link, but there is only a repeating of the 98% "results", no link to the original study or test or whatsoever. I've been looking for it, but found none. Anyone?
A bit peculiar the speaker didn't make mention of Dr Edward de Bono! because the speaker's point that we make decisions at the idea generation stage is exactly what De Bono's CORT tools protect against...Everyone should educate themselves on Dr de Bono's methods!
Dr Land is an inspiration. The sad thing is that many leaders in education and industry have been successful using a limited amount of their potential and are stifling their creativity due to fear of failure. We need leaders who are brave enough to challenge their own limitations and not block the passions of those around them. Any examples then please share: @coralchatter
In the unlikely event that I ever have children of my own, I will certainly not be sending them to traditional 'schools'. Traditional schooling ruined me. I won't do that to my kids.
someone did that very exercise with a spoon well, maybe it was a fork but, the result was the spork ...the greatest culinary, utensil innovation known to man!
for anyone looking for the origin of the study, what I've found online leads back to the 1992 book "Breakpoint and Beyond: Mastering the Future Today" by Land. I haven't been able to look inside as there are no "full text online" copies, but that study seems to be in there somewhere. If anyone wants to purchase it or finds a free online version then let me know if it is in fact in there. This is a really interesting study, but yeah, like others have said, seems to be kind of vague and unsubstantiated
You can find many peer reviewed literatures on Google Scholars that describe his research. While each only shares pieces of it, you may be able to find information you're looking for as you go through them.
The book just had a handful of sentences about said study, no note to NASA, and while the book had many citations there were none for this study. I feel George Land was such a creative genius, he just made it up.
The nature of the test conducted needs to be specified for us to derive any true value from this study. I cannot seem to find the test conducted on the children anywhere on the internet. We cannot genuinely grasp the aspects of which the children were superior in without the details of the test. All this seems fabricated and non-productive in our understanding of the growth of the human mind as far as I can tell. I think all these results were concocted from thin air, to fit a rather attractive narrative to those against the structure of our current education, or those who want to believe that they used to be something greater than themselves, that they once had these immaculate creative thinking abilities. The test was conducted in 1968 yet I find countless articles written today about the prominence of this test and jumping to conclusions. Please help me find the test, I want to know this is true, and want to know exactly what areas do children excel at so greatly compared to adults.
Correlation is not causation.... The test shows age on creativity, not schooling in creativity. For an accurate result, it needs to test unschooled children as a control group...
Exactly. No control group. It could be done with a control group by doing the study in a developing country where education is not mandatory. The issue I believe is balance. Education brings order. It's the balance between order and chaos/creativity that gives us the best results.
Maybe 1. Make it so the canopy rotates or spins when strong wind hits it from any direction, rather than pushing the entire umbrella around and transmitting force to your hand. Or, 2. Design the canopy with some kind of 3D honeycomb structure (also so rain doesn't leak through) with vents and holes designed to equalize the wind pressure in all directions so the wind passes through but also stabilizes the umbrella at the same time.
I'm still paused at him saying it's a problem that third world countries can produce just as well as Americans. Like, hello! Maybe the problem is the system created that relies on class systems and wealth inequality. If it's a problem that others can produce as well as we can, my we are the problem.
I think he meant that in a different way than we usually use the word "problem". I think he meant it as part of the scientific method...looking for solutions to a "problem"; which really means a set of circumstances or a situation we are looking to cause predictable or controllable change within. I think his point was that, in the world today, all our [American society] technological success, modernization, etc., doesn't mean we are the only ones with the ability to innovate and produce knowledge, ideas, products, etc. In fact, the level of organization we have achieved doesn't necessarily support creative thinking and problem solving in the ways we assume. So, we have to work harder at fostering creative problem solving. Just my opinion, how I recieved it. Peace to you.
I tried to find more information, but did find none. Actually I don't believe this study. What possible test can be done by 4 year olds as well by adults?
"We" can start by re-thinking how we organize communities and finally do away with the archaic idea of the State. If you want to talk about human potential, eliminating this gang would be a great start.
well yes. how obvious! then let Putin decide how he's going to run your country. States are organised because of military and economic factors. Removing the state will remove the optimum vehicle to keep the country safe.
I do find this confusing. I am very creative and good at problem solving as are many of my friends. Creativity and ideas are great but without implementation not worth much. If everyone just sat around and dreamed all day, who would implement their dreams? We need people that are good at both. I have friends and colleagues that are great at organization and implementation and I am grateful they are good at and enjoy that.
Your stuck in the 98% LOL the convergent thinkers and you are to arrogant to see it LOL It is about playing and open ended thinking ...restraining the judging critizing until you have exhausted all different ways of doing it- it shifts the mind and it becomes a superpower...I have written 175 poems play 7 instruments written and recorded 50 songs have 3 degrees including a masters of philosophy of learning written 2 plays ...hv my chef's certificate and ran a catering company and taught for 20 years and helped turn around 100 struggling students as a consultant THAT is genius that is creativity :)
This appears to be inspiring stuff but WHERE IS THIS FAMOUS ( "reliably predictive") NASA TEST? - I hope I don't sound like a narrow minded convergent thinking scientist about this!
I thought Ted Talks were put on by intelligent people, and watched mostly *by* intelligent people. Now I'm not so sure. Where is the study? Who peer reviewed it? Was an additional study performed to see if the results obtained in the first study were indeed caused by the education system? Correlation doesn't equal causation. This supposed NASA study has never been produced. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Let's not start with the claimed conclusions of some vague study. Let's start with confirming that any such study ever happened. And by the way, George Land was an author, speaker, consultant, and general systems scientist - not a child psychologist. And his entire list of accomplishments in his lifetime bio at World Business Academy makes zero mention of a study of over one thousand children. Nor does it mention NASA.
This is nothing new. Children have many ideas, as they grow up they realize their ideas were silly so they drop them .They never reach the point where they have any good ideas because they give up to soon . The solution to a problem is to listen to the 2 % who have good ideas, not to start convincing the 98% who are conformists to magically start thinking with genius like ideas. This is a" Get in touch with your inner genius" wish. It's food for thought though and people should try to start coming up with alternative solutions to their problems.
Nonsense! Anyone can be creative...go look up Edward de Bono's CORT tools. Deeming an idea "silly" (before it has been properly evaluated) is exactly why we teach creativity out of children (and adults!)
That's assuming that all of those 98% were conformists to begin with, which may not really be the case. You'd be surprised at how creative kids can be before they enter the school system. Countless good ideas are lost in so many young people over time that they end becoming intellectual conformists by default due to satisfying a good reputation of societal expectations behind intelligence.
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.” -Stanley Kubrick
Such profound words, but It has to start early though. Otherwise , it either becomes too late or cumbersome because overtime that energy of interest or motivation is depleted and converted into fear or enervation.
❤️
didnt he help fake the moon landing?
True. Actual learning only happens based on interest. You can't standardise interests. Having a standardised curriculum at a young age is an insane idea. And that's just one part of a rotten system.
Interesting! Isn't this how religion also operates?
my kids grade 4 and grade 8 this ...are doing homeschooling and ive never seen them reason so progressively ,think indepently and incharge of their reasoning capacity and their level of imagination is out of this world .I am proud of the decision i took
I had the pleasure of working for the George Land and Beth Jarman organization, Leadership 2000, and many of the ideas and concepts like this one have stuck with me ... at the office, we would have a phrase when we might be working on something, even a trivial issue, that had multiple outcomes ... our shot out would be, 'What are ALL the ways we can do this ..?!.'. Such great fun and fantastic memories with marvelous world-class clients and Associate Partners.
Rest in Peace George, I met you in 2006 and your presence stood out to me. Such a wise and wonderful man.
You are Very luck man
When I was about 6 years old I was taken for a test such as those spoken of in this talk. They are not written tests of course. These tests have to do with hand-eye coordination, visual acuity, pattern recognition, etc. The tests I took were not presented as "tests" to me, my mom took me to a place where "a nice man is going to show you some interesting things and let you play with things and draw some pictures".
I was a natural born artist, I was bored with school and spent more time drawing and daydreaming than paying attention in class. My teacher suggested the child psychologist my mom took me to visit that day. I didn't know what was up for several years. My grandfather, who was always my most fervent champion for becoming an artist, finally asked if I remembered that day with the nice man. I said YES! it had been really fun, and the man was like no one I had ever met before -- other than my grandfather.
He told me that it was a sort of IQ test, and that the results in the report from this "nice man" said I was a savant in art and very intelligent over all. It said I was as advanced as most adults in my pattern recognition ability , and in drawing and painting.
I went on to be a successful professional artist after graduating from high school. I never had the slightest inclination to go to higher education, being an autodidact, and polymath.
I was a special effects artist in Hollywood for some 20 years. I also worked as a designer and model maker in the theme park industry. I later did quite well with freelance fine art sculpture and design, finally doing bronze and other metal statues and statuettes.
I have always been fascinated by socio-political subjects and taught myself many skills in that area. I now am mainly involved in Forensic History studies.
\\][//
This is what I hate about internet. This story seems believable, but is he saying the truth? You gonna never know :D
Wow..nice path.
Wow! Awesome! Keep doing great things.
@@DENiS-trcz Well, whether he is or is not telling the truth, his creative abilities cannot be questioned!
I'm 29, and seriously lack creativity. I'm going to try and do this to become more creative: meet more creative people and share ideas; read more (fiction and non-fiction); try and find time to just think and come up with creative ideas.
Read this book, it's amazing! - "Ideas on Demand: A crash course on creativity. Bust creativity blocks, 10x your ideas, and become an idea machine. (10x Impact)" by Miliind Harrdas.
@@oliviagurney7060 thank you for the suggestion, please may I ask a question: if there's one thing you took away from the book what would it be?
How is it going?
I was there that night. I must say this was one of my favorite talks--brilliant, insightful, and eye-opening.
I came here after knowing that 98% of 5-year-olds have had imaginative thinking for a long time. After finishing this video I realize that I'm very lucky to still have them at the age of 19 right now, after 12 years of my teachers and parents trying to suppress my imaginative thinking lol. We all must come together and change our education system asap, this can't go on any longer.
I would love to see the results for populations of children who have been unschooled, or autonomously home educated. I'd like to think that the results would be different. John Taylor Gatto implied that the reason schools had a dumbing down effect was that they didn't allow a child to follow their own thoughts and do what they needed to do in the moment, due to curricula, timetables, and the Victorian idea of concentration and discipline which makes everything hard work, no matter how enjoyable. Maybe that is the effect at work here too.
I am a future educator and I can tell you that my philosophy of learning will be centered on Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences and I will take steps to spark neurotransmitters in my students' brains.
@caliandris
Check the system of teaching in Finland.
The highest scores and most success rates.
Simply no homework, kids discover insects while climbing trees at the schoolyard is what gets them enough motivation to attend college biology classes during snowstorms and became scientists. Yes, that simple!
I did not do any research, but I am sure unschoolers would stay at 98% (unless they had parents who were a bit too ambitious)
@@tamimbaker92 Finland system has a severe downside, as you can confirm with this:
The only scientific Nobel prize gotten by a Finnish was Artturi Ilmari Virtanen in 1945, for achievements of a century ago.
The only Fields Medal was Lars Ahlfors again for achievements almost a century of age.
So much for such 'great' educational system?
Take, for instance, a country with severe economic and social problems like Brazil, produced Artur Avila who got the Fields Medal in 2014, and had 3 other guys close to getting it (Marcelo Viana, Gugu Moreira and Fernando Coda Marquez all 3 in recent years), and IMPA (the top mathematical institution of Brazil) has likely more math genius, Fields Medal winners caliber on the making. How come Finland, with a supposedly uber superior educational system, doesn't have an equivalent production of talent?
Isn't such 'perfect' system killing the hunger for greatness somehow? too much relying in 'equality' on 'not putting pressure on them' on them being 'happy' (which could be translated of having them not having further ambition)?
Or what other explanation would you have for failing to produce world class scientific outliers?
@@dartherus you measure succes by nobel prizes? This is exactly the essence of the problem.
As a whole society, the Finnish thrive more than most others.
Creativity is needed for out of the box thinking. We’re currently in such a box we can’t (and won’t) think our way out of it.
Thank you George Land for sharing and your incredible INSIGHT into improving Creativity....
I feel the fear of failure whenever I had a job that required periodic "tests" of skills and knowledge. Suddenly, I would be unable to remember anything needed for a good score. I am college educated and felt this deeply. Crazy.
If someone finds the actual tests the kids were given, could you please post it? Would be a huge help.
I believe I too was given this test as a child. Also I really feel I have gone back to a, "90%" at one major point in my life but of course I can't say how I am today. Now back then I tapped into that imagination and went from a class grade of an F and a professor saying I was not meant for that class. I took the class again with a different professor that's teaching style lit up our imaginations.. I passed the class with over an A, it was embarrassing to award me the extra credits I earned. I also was exempted from my final to fill out a questioner on how I had such a huge change in my grades and what helped. It's amazing how you can "tap" into your inner child as they are calling it, just with that sort of approach even in teaching.
What was the test?
Google "George Land NASA creativity test". He used a simple test of divergent thinking (imagination). Small children have tons of imagination. The more they are taught to conform, the less they use imagination. Adults are particularly weak imaginers unless they practice engaging in imagining possibilities (also known as possibility thinking).
So - maybe not teach them to conform? Or conform consciously, but not unconditionally? And question rules all the time? :)
school’s too good of a business model now, surprised this video that contains facts hasn’t been removed.
This is why we created Zedu Plus, where we invite kids to learn by finding their resources and where they can understand and create through personalized projects based on their level of knowledge.
This study is amazing. Innovation is created for a low percent of human beings. Interesting the theory of the two kind of thinking. Great video.
Love George, his latest book will be released in February.
This talk is fantastic!
So where was the part of the research that intuitively should follow? Where are results of this test done on adults that never attended school? Are their result still so "extraordinarily" great?
Where can i find the original study he did? i need it for a project.
Studying psychology in 3rd semester.
Pls help!
@Fi Hills I tried the link, but there is only a repeating of the 98% "results", no link to the original study or test or whatsoever. I've been looking for it, but found none.
Anyone?
does anyone know where to get the original study?
Hey please tell me u find it :( ??
It is hard to get it. It most probably made up.
Citations are not coming up for me.
शिक्षक निरर्थक हैं और पूरी शिक्षा व्यवस्था प्रवर्तन है ।
Im so glad i never sent my kids to school ❤ home educating and unschooling is the way forward
i had this theory for a while now and he perfectly backed it up with his research
parkour is my way of being a kid
A bit peculiar the speaker didn't make mention of Dr Edward de Bono! because the speaker's point that we make decisions at the idea generation stage is exactly what De Bono's CORT tools protect against...Everyone should educate themselves on Dr de Bono's methods!
We refer to Dr. Land's growth curve insights in all our leadership training since 1990!
Dr Land is an inspiration.
The sad thing is that many leaders in education and industry have been successful using a limited amount of their potential and are stifling their creativity due to fear of failure. We need leaders who are brave enough to challenge their own limitations and not block the passions of those around them.
Any examples then please share: @coralchatter
Okey... Sounds good, but why nobody can't find the original research?
did u find it ???
Has anyone had luck locating the original pdf / data for this work? I am hoping to use it in my research
In the unlikely event that I ever have children of my own, I will certainly not be sending them to traditional 'schools'.
Traditional schooling ruined me. I won't do that to my kids.
thankyou for your inspiring words!
someone did that very exercise with a spoon well, maybe it was a fork but, the result was the spork ...the greatest culinary, utensil innovation known to man!
for anyone looking for the origin of the study, what I've found online leads back to the 1992 book "Breakpoint and Beyond: Mastering the Future Today" by Land. I haven't been able to look inside as there are no "full text online" copies, but that study seems to be in there somewhere. If anyone wants to purchase it or finds a free online version then let me know if it is in fact in there. This is a really interesting study, but yeah, like others have said, seems to be kind of vague and unsubstantiated
You can find many peer reviewed literatures on Google Scholars that describe his research. While each only shares pieces of it, you may be able to find information you're looking for as you go through them.
I could only find references to the book (which is not peer reviewed) any luck finding peer reviewed sources?
The book just had a handful of sentences about said study, no note to NASA, and while the book had many citations there were none for this study. I feel George Land was such a creative genius, he just made it up.
@@rubikscubers Yeah I still haven't found it.....
What was the practice to become more creative ?
The nature of the test conducted needs to be specified for us to derive any true value from this study. I cannot seem to find the test conducted on the children anywhere on the internet. We cannot genuinely grasp the aspects of which the children were superior in without the details of the test. All this seems fabricated and non-productive in our understanding of the growth of the human mind as far as I can tell. I think all these results were concocted from thin air, to fit a rather attractive narrative to those against the structure of our current education, or those who want to believe that they used to be something greater than themselves, that they once had these immaculate creative thinking abilities. The test was conducted in 1968 yet I find countless articles written today about the prominence of this test and jumping to conclusions. Please help me find the test, I want to know this is true, and want to know exactly what areas do children excel at so greatly compared to adults.
You belong to that 98%
the person in charge of uploading this Ted talks also failed in video resolution
The Great Designer - very great
INCREDIBLE!!!
Correlation is not causation.... The test shows age on creativity, not schooling in creativity. For an accurate result, it needs to test unschooled children as a control group...
Exactly. No control group. It could be done with a control group by doing the study in a developing country where education is not mandatory. The issue I believe is balance. Education brings order. It's the balance between order and chaos/creativity that gives us the best results.
@@lovetolearn881 Hello convergent thinker welcome to the 98% LOL blind and arrogant LOL
❤ love this one!
Here's an idea: How about re-inventing the umbrella? Damn things don't work when it's windy, which is usually the case when it rains nowadays. grrr!
buy a rain coat
Have you ever been rained on and loved it? Or just Neverwet yourself!
rain dont hurt
What if we made holes in them so the wind blows through ?
Maybe 1. Make it so the canopy rotates or spins when strong wind hits it from any direction, rather than pushing the entire umbrella around and transmitting force to your hand. Or, 2. Design the canopy with some kind of 3D honeycomb structure (also so rain doesn't leak through) with vents and holes designed to equalize the wind pressure in all directions so the wind passes through but also stabilizes the umbrella at the same time.
I wanted to do the creativity test with my children, Anybody knows what was about? I could not find the test itself.
***** Thanks, i thouth it was more complex. That one I can check with my children.
How come I wasn't aware that TED was in my town?
well speach Bravo !!!
thanks 👍👍👍
I'm still paused at him saying it's a problem that third world countries can produce just as well as Americans. Like, hello! Maybe the problem is the system created that relies on class systems and wealth inequality. If it's a problem that others can produce as well as we can, my we are the problem.
I think he meant that in a different way than we usually use the word "problem". I think he meant it as part of the scientific method...looking for solutions to a "problem"; which really means a set of circumstances or a situation we are looking to cause predictable or controllable change within. I think his point was that, in the world today, all our [American society] technological success, modernization, etc., doesn't mean we are the only ones with the ability to innovate and produce knowledge, ideas, products, etc. In fact, the level of organization we have achieved doesn't necessarily support creative thinking and problem solving in the ways we assume. So, we have to work harder at fostering creative problem solving. Just my opinion, how I recieved it. Peace to you.
in that case i wonder if children never go to school?____over all they'll do better? any solutions?
So what is the score needed for a Genius Score?
90%
TEDx Talks, if you stop making videos dont delete them
Does it mean if we didn't go to school, we would still have 98% genious?
School really fd up my life
I tried to find more information, but did find none.
Actually I don't believe this study.
What possible test can be done by 4 year olds as well by adults?
Think creative around the world ,
Ok I'm here madam
"We" can start by re-thinking how we organize communities and finally do away with the archaic idea of the State. If you want to talk about human potential, eliminating this gang would be a great start.
well yes. how obvious! then let Putin decide how he's going to run your country. States are organised because of military and economic factors. Removing the state will remove the optimum vehicle to keep the country safe.
Manufacture people... You are a product, get it.
I do find this confusing. I am very creative and good at problem solving as are many of my friends. Creativity and ideas are great but without implementation not worth much. If everyone just sat around and dreamed all day, who would implement their dreams? We need people that are good at both. I have friends and colleagues that are great at organization and implementation and I am grateful they are good at and enjoy that.
Your stuck in the 98% LOL the convergent thinkers and you are to arrogant to see it LOL It is about playing and open ended thinking ...restraining the judging critizing until you have exhausted all different ways of doing it- it shifts the mind and it becomes a superpower...I have written 175 poems play 7 instruments written and recorded 50 songs have 3 degrees including a masters of philosophy of learning written 2 plays ...hv my chef's certificate and ran a catering company and taught for 20 years and helped turn around 100 struggling students as a consultant THAT is genius that is creativity :)
This appears to be inspiring stuff but WHERE IS THIS FAMOUS ( "reliably predictive") NASA TEST? - I hope I don't sound like a narrow minded convergent thinking scientist about this!
I thought Ted Talks were put on by intelligent people, and watched mostly *by* intelligent people. Now I'm not so sure.
Where is the study? Who peer reviewed it? Was an additional study performed to see if the results obtained in the first study were indeed caused by the education system? Correlation doesn't equal causation. This supposed NASA study has never been produced. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Let's not start with the claimed conclusions of some vague study. Let's start with confirming that any such study ever happened.
And by the way, George Land was an author, speaker, consultant, and general systems scientist - not a child psychologist. And his entire list of accomplishments in his lifetime bio at World Business Academy makes zero mention of a study of over one thousand children. Nor does it mention NASA.
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5 year olds are why Windows 10 happened.
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Op school mogen kinderen niet creatief zijn , dan krijgen ze de nodige stempels.
I'd like to thank the 98% convergent thinkers in th comment section for proving this talks thesis correct LOL
This is nothing new. Children have many ideas, as they grow up they realize their ideas were silly so they drop them .They never reach the point where they have any good ideas because they give up to soon . The solution to a problem is to listen to the 2 % who have good ideas, not to start convincing the 98% who are conformists to magically start thinking with genius like ideas. This is a" Get in touch with your inner genius" wish. It's food for thought though and people should try to start coming up with alternative solutions to their problems.
Nonsense! Anyone can be creative...go look up Edward de Bono's CORT tools. Deeming an idea "silly" (before it has been properly evaluated) is exactly why we teach creativity out of children (and adults!)
That's assuming that all of those 98% were conformists to begin with, which may not really be the case. You'd be surprised at how creative kids can be before they enter the school system. Countless good ideas are lost in so many young people over time that they end becoming intellectual conformists by default due to satisfying a good reputation of societal expectations behind intelligence.
Stone Age...haha
So he adds divergent propaganda of the darwinian cult. HAHAHA