Raise your self-esteem with a computer game

Back in the days when I allowed myself to play computer games I used to find Quake extremely good for venting anger. I don't think it did anything for my self-esteem though. Mainly it just made me want to use a chainsaw to rip people's heads off. Researchers at McGill University have more constructive ideas.

[Story from Science Daily]

[McGill's self-esteem site]

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.

Click here to find out more...

Published: 10 May 2004

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