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KhurramDaraSecondPaper 9 - 09 Jul 2012 - Main.KhurramDara
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Why it's hard for me to be creative | | | It’s not that this process is entirely without any utility. It’s just that it requires little, if any creativity. This structure does do one thing very well--it makes us all really good, I mean really good, at following directions. Which means for most of our professional lives, our work will only be as good as the directions that precede it. Of course, it is necessary to ask whether such a system will still exist. That is to say, what happens if simply acquiring the fruit salad doesn't guarantee you any sort of employment? Then if not for the sake of creativity, then perhaps for the sake of our own careers, we ought to move away from this fixation on credentials. | |
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> | Also, it is not the case that our educational institutions have nothing to offer. Attending a top-rate institution is helpful, if for nothing else, because it allows us to meet and interact with motivated, intelligent, and bright peers. But the competitive, individual-oriented approach of academic institutions, like law school for example, eliminate many of the benefits that could be derived from working with our classmates. So, in many cases, students are not only left without the ability to be creative, but also unable to engage in basic collaborative learning. Our deficiencies in collaborative learning are even more apparent with the discomfort many of us have in, say, editing one another's writing. There's a sense that we lack the authority, a fear of overstepping boundaries, and an often defensive reaction to having someone else change your work.
With large scale overhaul of how our educational system works unlikely, for our purposes, the most useful short-term fix to this problem would be to make an effort to involve ourselves in experiential learning opportunities, likely outside formal educational settings. | | |
So, now that you've been through the process so many times, and |
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