Find Meaning in Your Work & Stay Motivated

We’re not huge, rah! rah! types about much of anything, let alone TED Talks, but this one struck a sympathetic chord:

Or it is only individual notes that can be sympathetic? read article

Creativity and the Educational System: Contradiction in Terms?

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Do schools help creativity or hinder it? If they don’t, what can we do to fix that? If they do, what can we do to make them help even more?

We’ll ‘fess up to the fact that TVWriter™ has absolutely no clue about how to answer those questions from anything other than personal/anecdotal evidence. For our staff, that evidence is overwhelming: All of the regular TVWriter™ minions feel that their kindergarten thru high school educations worked against their ability to create, especially as writers. But, hey, your experience, like your gas mileage, may vary. read article