Seven reasons not to send your kid to college.

Is investing in a college education money wasted? James Altucher, managing director of Formula Capital, says it is. In this video interview, Altucher argues that there are far better ways to put your money to work to benefit your kids. Controversial? You bet, but his ideas are certainly food for thought.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/investing/seven-reasons-not-to-send-your-kids-to-college/19572537/

The College Drop-Out Hall of fame

Why do lots of creative people feature?
http://www.collegedropoutshalloffame.com/index.htm

The top 10 reasons why your CEO sabotages innovation.

This via my friend Alan Black.
A previous blog of mine featured the IBM CEO report that stated creativity is the number one trait wanted in CEO's but is there a gap between the desired and the actual.
http://www.ideachampions.com/weblogs/archives/2009/06/post_52.shtml
What do you think?

Stories synchronize brains

http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/stories-synchronize-brains.htm?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=neuromarketing

I am sure the ability to use stories to engage readers and listeners has application beyond marketing. What is your experience in using stories?

Creative Warfare

This puts a whole new dimension on the war games we used to play as kids!!

Cardboard Warfare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE-ZmwATS8E&feature=related

The making of cardboard warfare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSCAfSJGMV8

What is creativity?

A discussion about Creativity with author Ashley Merryman, musicologist Aaron Berkowitz of Harvard University and Bruce Alberts

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11125

Vik Muniz on Creativity

Vik Muniz makes art from pretty much anything, be it shredded paper, wire, clouds or diamonds. Here he describes the thinking behind his work and takes us on a tour of his incredible images.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/vik_muniz_makes_art_with_wire_sugar.html

Ken Robinson on Creativity

For the first in a new series of community-driven Q&As, TED and Reddit joined forces to ask creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson any question. TED fans converged on this article on Reddit to post their questions, and to vote on questions posed by others. Sir Ken was asked the the 10 questions with the most votes. Here is the link to his answers:
http://blog.ted.com/2009/08/ted_and_reddit_1.php

The Creativity Crisis

For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it. This from Newsweek.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html

Nurturing Creativity

Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html