Week 2: MAC Blog: The Invention of Perception
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| Money |
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| Time |
I am currently taking in
the book The Art of Possibility by Benjamin Zander & Rosamund Stone
Zander. The premise of the book relates
to the “universe of possibility.”
Perception is a developed skill, and goes beyond what you can see and
into what you can create. There is an
inherent reality that most concepts or things are inventions, such as time,
money, calendar, and fire.
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| fire toss |
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| Calendar |
All of these things are
discoveries created into inventions. We
needed measurement for how long things took, people watched the sun and decided
that was pretty consistent to create time, and then the calendar followed. People played with rocks and kindling to
discover and create fire. People
realized that carrying large stones and items to exchange was difficult so they
created money. What are the real
differences between that and discovery of your voice, song, art, or a
new Intel chip. You collect data and you
create with this data.
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| fire |
Inventions come into my
life all of the time, though I rarely if ever act on them. I would guess that few of us do. Despite having a very large drive to succeed
in my family, I was driven to succeed in the traditional manner so that I could
contribute to society. I did not,
however, conclude that you could contribute to society just by creatively engaging
with it. In the book there is an
assignment that I quite fancy. The
teacher declares that you all have an A in this class. All you have to do is to write about what you
did to earn this extraordinary A by next year.
Would this assignment empower your students?
All pictures from this blog are from http://www.flickr.com
Time, called "Old Time," by Through Four Eyes. http://www.flickr.com/photos/four/431223732/
Fire Toss, called "Fire Twirler," by dj@lis. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rajdeepsandhu/5132443737/
Fire, called "Fire in Dumpster," by benwatts. http://www.flickr.com/photos/benwatts/4087289013/
Calendar, called "October Calendar," by emdot. http://www.flickr.com/photos/emdot/50537499/
Wonderful creative thoughts about creativity and invention in connection with this week's reading.
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