Literary Abominations » thoughtiness http://jdsawyer.net The Worlds of J. Daniel Sawyer Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:20:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 TED of the Day: Creativity and Play http://jdsawyer.net/2008/11/26/ted-of-the-day-creativity-and-play/ http://jdsawyer.net/2008/11/26/ted-of-the-day-creativity-and-play/#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:39:09 +0000 jdsawyer http://jdsawyer.net/?p=334 As we grow and learn about responsibility and darkness in the world, we often lose the ability to play at life, at love, and to take the kinds of risks that children take for fun every day. It’s an interesting paradox, because as our world gets freer and more prosperous, more of the jobs available to us – indeed the jobs that are most exciting and profitable – require the ability to play as well as the ability to work diligently.

Losing the ability to play is one of the more tragic things that can happen to a person. It’s at the root of a lot of the unhappiness in the world I’ve seen, and (from personal observation) it comes in play heavily during quarter-life and midlife crises.

The TED video below talks about the evolving state of play with regards to play, learning, economic innovation, and human flourishing. It’s worth the 18 minutes. Trust me :-)

]]> http://jdsawyer.net/2008/11/26/ted-of-the-day-creativity-and-play/feed/ 0 TED of the day: The Story of Everything http://jdsawyer.net/2008/11/25/ted-of-the-day-the-story-of-everything/ http://jdsawyer.net/2008/11/25/ted-of-the-day-the-story-of-everything/#comments Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:08:18 +0000 jdsawyer http://jdsawyer.net/?p=332 Today, I bring you physicist Brian Cox discussing the Large Hadron Collider and what it means for our understanding of the universe. Chock full of wonder, delight, and beauty – join me in marveling at the magnificence of the universe, and the fact that we are able to understand it at all.

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Jacqueline Novogratz discusses markets and foreign aid and underclass empowerment in Africa. Worth every second.

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