If you are one of those people who believes that you are tone deaf then perhaps it is time to change your beliefs. New research into musically 'talented' people claims that their talents are a result of practice. So far, so dull.
What Oliver James doesn't address in his article is the most important question which many psychologists are asking now: how much is practice and how much is talent? Now there's a question that's worth answering.
> From The Observer
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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