Daniel Pink
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But our portfolio of emotions has to be at least somewhat diversified. So if you have only positive emotions, you're not going to do very well. You have to have some negative emotions because not that many of them and not an overwhelming number of them. But negative emotions are instructive. Imagine somebody who couldn't experience fear. All right.
But our portfolio of emotions has to be at least somewhat diversified. So if you have only positive emotions, you're not going to do very well. You have to have some negative emotions because not that many of them and not an overwhelming number of them. But negative emotions are instructive. Imagine somebody who couldn't experience fear. All right.
But our portfolio of emotions has to be at least somewhat diversified. So if you have only positive emotions, you're not going to do very well. You have to have some negative emotions because not that many of them and not an overwhelming number of them. But negative emotions are instructive. Imagine somebody who couldn't experience fear. All right.
That person is not going to escape a burning building. And so negative emotions serve a function. And so we've been seduced into thinking the only emotions that we should have are positive emotions. And while it's true that we should have a lot of positive emotions, that is not a diversified emotional portfolio.
That person is not going to escape a burning building. And so negative emotions serve a function. And so we've been seduced into thinking the only emotions that we should have are positive emotions. And while it's true that we should have a lot of positive emotions, that is not a diversified emotional portfolio.
That person is not going to escape a burning building. And so negative emotions serve a function. And so we've been seduced into thinking the only emotions that we should have are positive emotions. And while it's true that we should have a lot of positive emotions, that is not a diversified emotional portfolio.
We would never have all of our stocks in our financial portfolio in one industry or in one sector. We would want a little bit of diversification. And that's what we want with our emotions. And the blue chip emotional stock for negative emotions is regret.
We would never have all of our stocks in our financial portfolio in one industry or in one sector. We would want a little bit of diversification. And that's what we want with our emotions. And the blue chip emotional stock for negative emotions is regret.
We would never have all of our stocks in our financial portfolio in one industry or in one sector. We would want a little bit of diversification. And that's what we want with our emotions. And the blue chip emotional stock for negative emotions is regret.
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so what is creativity to you let me use a quote by albert einstein creativity is intelligence having fun um throughout our our school lives we have been trained if you will to look for right answers if you consider the fact that most students between kindergarten and 12th grade have been asked have taken about 2500 test quizzes and exams
so what is creativity to you let me use a quote by albert einstein creativity is intelligence having fun um throughout our our school lives we have been trained if you will to look for right answers if you consider the fact that most students between kindergarten and 12th grade have been asked have taken about 2500 test quizzes and exams
so what is creativity to you let me use a quote by albert einstein creativity is intelligence having fun um throughout our our school lives we have been trained if you will to look for right answers if you consider the fact that most students between kindergarten and 12th grade have been asked have taken about 2500 test quizzes and exams
And they've been asked over one and a half million questions. What the research is showing is that about 80% of those questions on the test and 80% of the verbal questions tend to be factual questions. In other words, we have been trained throughout our education career to look for the right answer. Creativity moves beyond that right answer. It plays with that knowledge.
And they've been asked over one and a half million questions. What the research is showing is that about 80% of those questions on the test and 80% of the verbal questions tend to be factual questions. In other words, we have been trained throughout our education career to look for the right answer. Creativity moves beyond that right answer. It plays with that knowledge.
And they've been asked over one and a half million questions. What the research is showing is that about 80% of those questions on the test and 80% of the verbal questions tend to be factual questions. In other words, we have been trained throughout our education career to look for the right answer. Creativity moves beyond that right answer. It plays with that knowledge.
It experiments with that knowledge. It has fun with that knowledge, as Einstein was alluding to. Creativity is letting our minds roam with no barriers, no restrictions whatsoever.
It experiments with that knowledge. It has fun with that knowledge, as Einstein was alluding to. Creativity is letting our minds roam with no barriers, no restrictions whatsoever.