Suppress it and you'll dream about it...
The usual criticism of Freud's work is that many of his theories are largely unverifiable. Certainly no evidence has been found for two of his most well-known ideas - the Oedipus and Electra complexes. But in psychology it's not wise to take sides too quickly. Here is a report of the first study to confirm Freud's theory of dreams:
The science of creativity
As Pablo Picasso once pointed out, all children are creative; the challenge is to remain creative into adulthood.
Unfortunately public education systems around the world seem designed to crush creativity in favour of rote learning and test passing. As the years pass a fear of being wrong takes over from our natural creative tendencies.
Unlike mathematics, languages or the humanities, we are rarely taught about creativity, despite its importance to our lives. Yet the information is out there, waiting to be used.
If you would like to be more creative at work and at home—and that has to be most of us—the insights in this ebook will be useful.
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