viernes, 26 de octubre de 2007

The older you are, the brainless you get ¿?

Some of you could say that it is not true, that as the older you get, the wiser you are thus you are not brainless. I agree with you up to certain point. Yes, as older you get the more experienced you are thus wiser you are but the “wiser” thing is what I want to remark. What I agree in the phrase is that by “wiser” I denote a meaning of knowledge so if I say “you are wise” then I assume you posses by far more knowledge and no more than me. What I am trying to state is as we grow up, we are educated to become more rational and “realistic” so that certain dreams and fantasies you once had are setup to “grown” and thereby forgotten. In a recent conference I went this past week about creativity, Tony Buzan which happens to be the most creative mind the world and has set up a record mark in an IQ test in creativity and is the creator of the MindMaps, gave us some figures about how a human as they grow they loose their capacity to be creative. Data shows that(taken from Tony Buzan conference):
---Age - % Creativity
Kinder 95+
Primary 75
SeniorSchool 50
Univ.Stud. 25
Adult 15

Because of our way of living, we suddenly forget about the amazing we could be by using our creativity part. I just want to ask you, when was the last time you made a drawing? When was the last time you daydreamed yourself in a great adventure? When was the last time you observed a cloud and tried to figure out what it looked like?
I have a certain passion for riddles, anagrams, math problems and everything that has to do with logic. For all of you Spanish speakers I recommend you to visit this webpage www.adigma.com.mx . Is a webpage that creates logic rallies which are quite challenging. Personally I find them very difficult but once you solve them you really feel like “duh it was obvious”.
What I want to share with you is that our capacity to dream and fantasized cant diminish as we grow. We should always remember how we were as children and never forget that part of us. It has never been out of trend and it will never be, in fact everyday it is being more helpful. Now a days, the "innovation" word has become very used in companies.
We could just stop a minute and think about when we were in primary school. Some of us were very easily distracted and I am not saying that to work a kid's attentions is wrong but we were trained to always repeat, pay attention and not to copy when all you have to do to create something is to copy it and improve it. I agree that to copy and claim it as yours is wrong, but in order to create something you first have to copy to then be able to improve it. Sometimes when I was in school, when I couldnt start something I looked around with my schoolmates just to get an idea and then it just flowed on me. I didnt copy, at the end it was my own thing but I just needed a kick. How many times did it happen to you? the teacher asked you for a drawing and you just looked around to see what the other students were drawing so that you could get an idea. Its impossible to start with nothing, you will always need something.
I would like to know about your point of view, I just dont like how sometimes conversations can be so empty. At least that's how I feel them...

3 comentarios:

Anónimo dijo...

normalmente no comento en los blogs que leo. pero resulta que el tema que tocaste es para mi muy importante. no entiendo porque la gente tiene ese afan por crecer! quienes son las personas mas felices? los ninos! claro que estoy de acuerdo que en algunos aspectos es indispensable crecer, no puede tu mami seguirte visitnedo en la manana, pero muchas otras no es necesario y segun lo que yo creo el que se empena por matar esa parte, esta tarado! y asi de facil! por eso cuando la gente me pregunta que si tengo 7 anos porque sigo sonando con tener un pony rosa, mi lugar favorito en el mundo es disneyworld, amo las caricaturas, ivento canciones en un idioma nuevo y me encanta fantasear que soy una princesa (nada d lady D, yo como en los cuentos!)
si, si tengo 7 anos! =)
y lo amoo!! es lo que mas me gusta de mi. y lo que mas me hace feliz!!
creo que me extendi un poco, en fin te sigo leyendo erick..

y no crezcan!!

Jessica S.

Erick Gurrola Alanis dijo...

heyyyy Jessica S. me da gusto que hayas hecho un comentario aunque la verdad dudo que tengas 7 anos jaja, pero no es ese el punto pero si hay mchas cosas que tenemos que cambiar en nuestras percepciones y formas de pensar. Tenemos una percepcion de lo que implica crecer y nos ovlidamos de muchas otras cosas que no son mas que herramientas para formarnos y ayudarnos hacer mejores personas... bueno tantas cosas q pues ya reflexionaremos despues...
Gracias,, saludos!

*AndreA* dijo...

No quiero entrar en el mundo de los adultos... No me gusta como se empeñan en hacer todo complejo y problemático... Me choca!! Yo no quiero tener 7 años, pero no quiero que nadie me diga lo que es posible y lo que no. No quiero que nadie me diga lo que significa la felicidad. No quiero que nadie crea que puede imponerme (ni lo intente!) un concepto. ¡Quiero CREAR mis propios conceptos! ¡Quiero construir mi propio mundo de felicidad! ¡Quiero vivir MI vida como YO creo y quiero! Y que cada quien se esfuerce por hacer lo mismo... Imaginen, creen nuevas posibilidades, expandan sus horizontes, push the limits always...