"É assim que a História se desenrola. As pessoas tecem uma teia de sentido, acreditam nela de todo o coração, mas mais cedo ou mais tarde a teia desfaz-se e, quando olhamos para trás, não percebemos como é que alguém pode ter levado aquilo a sério. A esta distância, ir para uma cruzada na esperança de ganhar um lugar no Paraíso parece uma loucura. A esta distância, a Guerra Fria parece uma loucura ainda maior. Como é que há trinta anos havia pessoas dispostas a correrem o risco de um holocausto nuclear por causa de uma crença um paraíso comunista? Daqui a 100 anos, a nossa crença na democracia e nos direitos humanos poderá também parecer incompreensível aos olhos dos nossos descendentes.
Os Sapiens dominam o mundo porque só eles são capazes de tecer uma teia intersubjectiva de sentido: uma teia de leis, poderes, entidades e lugares que existem apenas no imaginário comum. Esta teia permite que só os humanos consigam organizar cruzadas, revoluções socialistas e movimentos de defesa dos direitos humanos.
[...] Ao longo dos últimos 70 mil anos, as realidades intersubjectivas inventadas pelo Sapiens tornaram-se cada vez mais poderosas ao ponto de hoje dominarem o mundo. Será que os chimpanzés, os elefantes, a floresta amazónica e os glaciares do Ártico sobreviverão ao século XXI? Isso dependerá dos desejos e decosões tomadas por entidades intersubjectivas como a União Europeia e o Banco Mundial, entidades que só existem no nosso imaginário comum."
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus
Manuel Freire - Pedra filosofal
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impérios de ficções
Why art could save the world...
"Qualquer cooperação humana a larga escala baseia-se, em última instância, na nossa crença em ordens imaginárias. São conjuntos de regras que, apesar de só existirem na nossa imaginação, acreditamos serem tão reais e inflexíveis como gravidade. "Se sacrificares dez bois ao deus do céu, acabará por chover; se honrares os teus pais, irás para o céu, e se não acreditares no que te digo, irás para o inferno." Desde que os Sapiens que vivem num determinado lugar acreditem nas mesmas histórias, seguirão as mesmas regras, fazendo com que seja fácil prever o comportamento de desconhecidos e organizar redes de cooperação a larga escala."
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus
Cidade visível
Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ’twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ’twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
What if ? / Why not ?
"There’s no argument anymore. Neuroscience confirms that highly creative people think and act differently than the average person. Their brains are literally hardwired in a unique way. But that gift can often strain relationships. I’ve seen it firsthand while working with New York Times bestselling authors and Grammy-winning musicians. If you love a highly creative person, you probably experience moments when it seems like they live in a completely different world than you. Truth is, they do. But trying to change them isn’t nearly as effective as trying to understand them."
Constato muito isto: "Creative individuals would rather be authentic than popular. Staying true to who they are, without compromise, is how they define success even if means being misunderstood or marginalized."
O resto está aqui.
Why Cultivating Nonconformity is More Important Than Ever
"Along with the natural fact that physical frontiers have receded, four
social trends have conspired to root out belief in secrets… First is
incrementalism. From an early age, we are taught that the right way to
do things is to proceed one very small step at a time, day by day, grade
by grade… Second is risk aversion. People are scared of secrets because
they are scared of being wrong… Third is complacency. Social elites
have the most freedom and ability to explore new thinking, but they seem
to believe in secrets the least. Why search for a new secret if you can
comfortably collect rents on everything that has already been done?…
Fourth is “flatness.” As globalization advances, people perceive the
world as one homogeneous, highly competitive marketplace: the world is
“flat.” Given that assumption, anyone who might have had the ambition to
look for a secret will first ask himself: if it were possible to
discover something new, wouldn’t someone from the faceless global talent
pool of smarter and more creative people have found it already?"
The Smart Parent series suggests 10 tips:
- Choosing a school where critical thinking is valued
- Modeling creative work and service
- Advocating that every learner is unique
- Go outside, raise a wild child
- Dropping everything and exploring the world
- Talk about the world at the dinner table
- Build a portfolio of creative work product
- Abandoning gender stereotypes
- Find a mentor
- Promote powerful learning experiences
Aqui
It's not always easy to feel different
"People with Mental Illness Enrich Our Lives"
Abraham Lincoln
The revered sixteenth President of the United States suffered from severe and incapacitating depressions that occasionally led to thoughts of suicide, as documented in numerous biographies by Carl Sandburg.
Virginia Woolf
The British novelist who wrote To the Lighthouse and Orlando experienced the mood swings of bipolar disorder characterized by feverish periods of writing and weeks immersed in gloom. Her story is discussed in The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr.
Lionel Aldridge
A defensive end for Vince Lombardi's legendary Green Bay Packers of the 1960's, Aldridge played in two Super Bowls. In the 1970's, he suffered from schizophrenia and was homeless for two and a half years. Until his death in 1998, he gave inspirational talks on his battle against paranoid schizophrenia. His story is the story of numerous newspaper articles.
Eugene O'Neill
The famous playwright, author of Long Day's Journey Into Night and Ah, Wilderness!, suffered from clinical depression, as documented in Eugene O'Neill by Olivia E. Coolidge.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The brilliant composer experienced bipolar disorder, as documented in The Key to Genius: Manic Depression and the Creative Life by D. Jablow Hershman and Julian Lieb.
Gaetano Donizetti
The famous opera singer suffered from bipolar disorder, as documented in Donizetti and the World Opera in Italy, Paris and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century by Herbert Weinstock.
Robert Schumann
The "inspired poet of human suffering" experienced bipolar disorder, as discussed in The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr.
Leo Tolstoy
Author of War and Peace, Tolstoy revealed the extent of his own mental illness in the memoir Confession. His experiences is also discussed in The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr and The Inner World of Mental Illness: A Series of First Person Accounts of What It Was Like by Bert Kaplan.
Vaslov Nijinsky
The dancer's battle with schizophrenia is documented in his autobiography, The Diary of Vaslov Nijinksy.
John Keats
The renowned poet's mental illness is documented in The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr and The Broken Brain: The biological Revolution in Psychiatry by Nancy Andreasen, M.D.
Tennessee Williams
The playwright gave a personal account of his struggle with clinical depression in his own Memoirs. His experience is also documented in Five O'Clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948-1982; The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams by Donald Spoto, and Tennessee: Cry of the Heart by Dotson.
Vincent Van Gogh
The celebrated artist's bipolar disorder is discussed in The Key to Genius: Manic Depression and the Creative Life by D. Jablow Hershman and Julian Lieb and Dear Theo, The Autobiography of Van Gogh.
Isaac Newton
The scientist's mental illness is discussed in The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr and The Key to Genius: Manic Depression and the Creative Life by D. Jablow Hershman and Julian Lieb.
Ernest Hemingway
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's suicidal depression is examined in the True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Ernest Hemingway by Those Who Knew Him by Denis Brian.
Sylvia Plath
The poet and novelist ended her lifelong struggle with clinical depresion by taking own life, as reported in A Closer Look at Ariel: A Memory of Sylvia Plath by nancy Hunter-Steiner.
Michelangelo
The mental illness of one of the world's greatest artistic geniuses is discussed in The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr.
Winston Churchill
"Had he been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished," wrote Anthony Storr about Churchill's bipolar disorder in Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind.
Vivien Leigh
The Gone with the Wind star suffered from mental illness, as documented in Vivien Leigh: A Biography by Ann Edwards.
Jimmy Piersall
The baseball player for the Boston Red Sox who suffered from bipolar disorder detailed his experience in The Truth Hurts.
Patty Duke
The Academy Award-winning actress told of her bipolar disorder in her autobiography and made-for-TV move Call Me Anna and A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-Depressive Illness, co-authored by Gloria Hochman.
Charles Dickens
One of the greatest authors in the English language suffered from clinical depression, as documented in The Key to Genius: Manic Depression and the Creative Life by D. Jablow Hershman and Julian Lieb, and Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph by Edgar Johnson.
The revered sixteenth President of the United States suffered from severe and incapacitating depressions that occasionally led to thoughts of suicide, as documented in numerous biographies by Carl Sandburg.
Virginia Woolf
The British novelist who wrote To the Lighthouse and Orlando experienced the mood swings of bipolar disorder characterized by feverish periods of writing and weeks immersed in gloom. Her story is discussed in The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr.
Lionel Aldridge
A defensive end for Vince Lombardi's legendary Green Bay Packers of the 1960's, Aldridge played in two Super Bowls. In the 1970's, he suffered from schizophrenia and was homeless for two and a half years. Until his death in 1998, he gave inspirational talks on his battle against paranoid schizophrenia. His story is the story of numerous newspaper articles.
Eugene O'Neill
The famous playwright, author of Long Day's Journey Into Night and Ah, Wilderness!, suffered from clinical depression, as documented in Eugene O'Neill by Olivia E. Coolidge.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The brilliant composer experienced bipolar disorder, as documented in The Key to Genius: Manic Depression and the Creative Life by D. Jablow Hershman and Julian Lieb.
Gaetano Donizetti
The famous opera singer suffered from bipolar disorder, as documented in Donizetti and the World Opera in Italy, Paris and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century by Herbert Weinstock.
Robert Schumann
The "inspired poet of human suffering" experienced bipolar disorder, as discussed in The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr.
Leo Tolstoy
Author of War and Peace, Tolstoy revealed the extent of his own mental illness in the memoir Confession. His experiences is also discussed in The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr and The Inner World of Mental Illness: A Series of First Person Accounts of What It Was Like by Bert Kaplan.
Vaslov Nijinsky
The dancer's battle with schizophrenia is documented in his autobiography, The Diary of Vaslov Nijinksy.
John Keats
The renowned poet's mental illness is documented in The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr and The Broken Brain: The biological Revolution in Psychiatry by Nancy Andreasen, M.D.
Tennessee Williams
The playwright gave a personal account of his struggle with clinical depression in his own Memoirs. His experience is also documented in Five O'Clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948-1982; The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams by Donald Spoto, and Tennessee: Cry of the Heart by Dotson.
Vincent Van Gogh
The celebrated artist's bipolar disorder is discussed in The Key to Genius: Manic Depression and the Creative Life by D. Jablow Hershman and Julian Lieb and Dear Theo, The Autobiography of Van Gogh.
Isaac Newton
The scientist's mental illness is discussed in The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr and The Key to Genius: Manic Depression and the Creative Life by D. Jablow Hershman and Julian Lieb.
Ernest Hemingway
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's suicidal depression is examined in the True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Ernest Hemingway by Those Who Knew Him by Denis Brian.
Sylvia Plath
The poet and novelist ended her lifelong struggle with clinical depresion by taking own life, as reported in A Closer Look at Ariel: A Memory of Sylvia Plath by nancy Hunter-Steiner.
Michelangelo
The mental illness of one of the world's greatest artistic geniuses is discussed in The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr.
Winston Churchill
"Had he been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished," wrote Anthony Storr about Churchill's bipolar disorder in Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind.
Vivien Leigh
The Gone with the Wind star suffered from mental illness, as documented in Vivien Leigh: A Biography by Ann Edwards.
Jimmy Piersall
The baseball player for the Boston Red Sox who suffered from bipolar disorder detailed his experience in The Truth Hurts.
Patty Duke
The Academy Award-winning actress told of her bipolar disorder in her autobiography and made-for-TV move Call Me Anna and A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-Depressive Illness, co-authored by Gloria Hochman.
Charles Dickens
One of the greatest authors in the English language suffered from clinical depression, as documented in The Key to Genius: Manic Depression and the Creative Life by D. Jablow Hershman and Julian Lieb, and Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph by Edgar Johnson.
RIP
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| Robin Williams, The Fisher King |
mais, aqui
Criatividade: um recurso ou um fardo / O que vem com o pacote
"Observemos um inquérito recentemente feito a várias dezenas de professores primários por psicólogos do Skidmore College. Quando inquiridos sobre se queriam ter crianças criativas na sala de aula, todos os professores responderam afirmativamente. Mas quando foi pedido a esses mesmos professores que classificassem os alunos em diversas escalas de personalidade, os traços mais directamente associados ao pensamento criativo (como 'exprimir-se livremente') eram também os mais associados aos alunos 'menos preferidos'. As crianças que sonham acordadas e improvisam podiam ser imaginativas, mas era difícil ensiná-las e obtinham piores resultados nos testes normalizados. Em consequência disso, eram regularmente rejeitados e desincentivados. Os investigadores resumiram os seus tristes dados: 'Os juízos feitos para a escolha do aluno preferido estavam negativamente correlacionados com a criatividade; os juízos feitos para a escolha do aluno menos preferido estavam positivamente correlacionados com a criatividade."
Jonah Lehrer, in Imagine
Imaginação por metro quadrado
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| Sillicon Valley |
Em que medida a proximidade física afeta a qualidade da investigação científica?
Isaac Kohane
"De facto, os melhores estudos eram constantemente produzidos por cientistas que trabalhavam a uma distância de dez metros uns dos outros, ao passo que os piores trabalhos provinham habitualmente de colaboradores situados a mais de um quilómetro." [...] 'Se queremos que as pessoas trabalhem juntas de forma eficiente, estes dados reforçam a necessidade de criar arquitecturas e instalações que sustentem interações físicas frequentes', afirma Kohane. Por outras palavras, as nossas ideias novas mais importantes não chegam através de um ecrã. Pelo contrário, surgem de conversas triviais, de demasiados cientistas a partilhar o mesmo espaço."
Jonah Lehrer, in Imagine
E mais ainda, aqui.
Interaction
"As ideias mais criativas, segundo parece, não surgem quando estamos sozinhos. Pelo contrário, elas nascem dos nossos círculos sociais, de conjuntos de conhecimentos que inspiram pensamentos novos. Por vezes as pessoas mais importantes da nossa vida são pessoas que mal conhecemos."
Jonah Lehrer, in Imagine
Why do we choose the places we do, to live and work?
Every crazy person in the world migrated to Sillicon Valley: The Mammas and the Papas, Country Joe and the Fish, Jefferson Airplane, The Greatful Dead, The Monterey pop festivals...
Brainstorming
Segundo Keith Sawyer, só há um problema com o brainstorming: não funciona. "Décadas de investigação têm constantemente demonstrado que os grupos de brainstorming geram muito menos ideias do que o mesmo número de pessoas a trabalharem individualmente, partilhando depois as suas ideias."
Jonah Lerher, in Imagine, citando Keith Sawyer em Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration
Creative LINKS
F-A-N-T-Á-S-T-I-C-O mil vezes fantástico
Lindas de morrer. Todas!
E, já agora, vale a pena dar uma olhada neste artigo.
Pensar fora da caixa / Crowd sourcing
Quem teve a ideia foi Alpheus Bingham.
A especialização (e consequente 'deformação profissional') é limitativa.
Há que pensar fora da caixa e ouvir quem não sabe...
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Criatividade e doença mental… Ainda
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Salvador Dali
A doença mental nem é necessária nem é suficiente para que haja criatividade.
Scott Barry Kauffman
As the researchers note, these findings are consistent with the idea that more creative people include more events/stimuli in their mental processes than less creative people. But crucially, they found that those scoring high in schizotypy showed a similar pattern of brain activations during creative thinking as the highly creative participants, supporting the idea that overlapping mental processes are implicated in both creativity and psychosis proneness. It seems that the key to creative cognition is opening up the flood gates and letting in as much information as possible. Because you never know: sometimes the most bizarre associations can turn into the most productively creative ideas. Indeed, Shelley Carson and her colleagues found that the most eminent creative achievers among a sample of Harvard undergrads were seven times more likely to have reduced latent inhibition. In other research, they found that students with reduced latent inhibition scored higher in openness to experience, and in my own research I’ve found that reduced latent inhibition is associated with a faith in intuition.
Scott Barry Kauffman
