creativity

Happened to go through half a day’s training undertaken by Enable India a few months ago, this is a long procrastinated writeup. It was a training on training blind people on computer literacy. Its important to understand the people one is working with.

I’m no authority on all this, I’m just summarising what I’ve so far learnt and understood from various sources. I think the Mahabharatha can be seen at many different levels. At one level, its a story – someone kills someone, someone takes an oath to not do that, someone plots against someone, someone else sticks…

There are a lot of nice things out here on this site which I get regularly from their mailing list. But this particular one on creativity really got to me. (It includes music as well).

Prerequisite: See [nine dot puzzle](http://msanjay.weblogs.us/entries/133/my-dads-second-last-puzzle) More than the solution to the [nine dot puzzle](http://msanjay.weblogs.us/entries/133/my-dads-second-last-puzzle) , the struggle involved in solving it is what really matters – the point is that it’s a clear demonstration of the fundamental folly of all of humanity, regardless of race, intellect or era.

(The Whole Is More Than The Sum Of The Parts

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James R. melton

Excerpt: So you want to be more creative, in art, in business, whatever. Here are some tips that have worked for me over the years

A discussion thread on art and learning… of course there’s also a certain amount of science of human nature involved – whether a person can learn to something (in this case, draw) very well irrespective of whether he has talent or not.

Sometimes I end up posting some links related to some particular topic, and I am asked by some who mail me, not in any offensive way but out of curiosity, where I find endless hours of time to google for such links. Since I have heard this enough number of times, I thought of explaining…