Clouds on the horizon?

Clouds on the horizon?

Historians argue that fear of decline and fear of change has been a constant in human history. Indeed, from the disintegration of the Roman Empire to the end of the Cold War, anxieties about quality of life, safety and geopolitical significance have been a faithful companion of society even while its standards of measurement are continuingly rising. There’s nothing new about that. What’s new is that these worries, which were ruling class worries for most of the last two thousand years, are now the worries of a broad middle class.

How would YOU define creativity?

 

I was brushing my teeth this morning when the question suddenly hit me: What is creativity? Of course, we all have a vague concept in our minds about what it is. Merriam Webster defines it as “the quality of being creative; the ability to create”. But when I chose the overall topic of my blog posts, I hadn’t really thought about what my own definition of creativity is. For me, creativity is not one concrete, tangible thing. It’s more like an umbrella term that unites several concepts.