Thursday, September 6, 2018

RAUL CUERO Interview - Creativity



How can I even begin to relate to someone like Raul Cuero, who seems to be on an entirely different plane of thought? He's so incredibly poised and has so much insight into what it means to be creative. It's almost hard to believe he makes his living off of science and not philosophy.


For starters, Cuero makes a few great points on creativity, including the idea that kids these days seem to be much less hands-on than our preceding generations. Nowadays, kids are so invested in technology that even stepping outside to discover their surroundings and play in the dirt seems like a foreign concept to most toddlers. Toddlers of the modern era are assuaged by their parental figures with an iPad chock full of games. What happened to the idea of them playing in sandboxes and getting their little hands all sticky? Some of my earliest memories from toddlerhood sandboxes include creating imaginary worlds with my friends and pretending we were invaders on alien planets. This, at least in my mind, does not seem nearly as appealing as playing a game on an Apple device, flooding the brain's dopamine receptors for about 15 minutes, and then being bored once said game is over.


I could go on, but I would be here figuratively all day.



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