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Hierarchy of Reading
Abraham Maslow made the concept of hierarchies of progression in systems popular via his work on a hierarchy of needs. Below is a theory about the hierarchy of different types of readers.
Survival Reader
Only reads when critical to survival. This type of reader regularly denounces [...]
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15 Things You Should Teach Your Kids To Prepare Them For the Future
Last night I was completely irresponsible and kept my son up until one in the morning on a school night hacking on 3D printed models and laser cutting a toy box for them. Today on a road trip across town [...]
Posted in Creativity, Personal
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Restore the Balance of Humanity. Create.
We consume too much. We have lost our ability to do things in moderation. We continue to enslave ourselves in the name of consuming more stuff. It has to stop.
This isn’t a matter of over consumption of natural resources. It [...]
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Deutsch’s Twelve Commandments of Conflict Resolution
If you want to make a difference you better be willing to embrace conflict. In fact, you better be creating and demanding it. How you deal with conflict is where the magic happens.
Here are some key points from Morton Deutsch’s [...]
Posted in Agile, Creativity
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A Facilitator’s Best Weapon. Emotional Intelligence.
As a facilitator one of your jobs is to keep things on track. There is a finite amount of time to get the desired objective/output. Sometimes it is important to remember that interactions that seem like they are going no [...]
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Unlock Your Inner Creator. Make Something Today.
We are wired to create. It is in our DNA. We have it systematically beaten out of us on a regular basis. We are told we aren’t good enough to try things. We lose our curiousity and our ability experiment [...]
Posted in AZ, Creativity
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Chandler Center for the Arts.. A Place to Arrive
Recently, I was asked to sit in on a visioning session for the Chandler Center for the Arts (CCA). The report from those meetings has been published. You can find it here.
CCA should be applauded for not resting on it’s [...]
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The Future is All About Expressing Our Humanity
I say it every day. I give this same story of our history. I am a nobody. Maybe you will believe it if you hear it from a famous author? It’s nice to have others saying a similar thing. The [...]
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Maybe We Could Learn Something From the Kids?
During the Downtown Chandler Block Party we opened the doors at Gangplank. Mike Benner from Gangplank Junior and the guys from Building Bonanza ran some activities for the kids. We had 50 or so artful master pieces created. Nearly half [...]
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Supporting Arts and Culture is Fundamental to Place Making
Culture is paramount for the future of humanity. The presence of strong art and culture in a community serves as an inspiration to strive beyond ones self. It pulls us out of our own head and opens up new doors [...]
Posted in Community, Creativity, Education
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