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Week 10 Story Lab

As I've mentioned before, I absolutely love Ted Talks and always take advantage of having the opportunity to watch them. This week I watched two redrawing the creative life. I really enjoyed them and recorded a few of my notes below.

1. A New Theory Of Human Intelligence
- He argues that those telling us of our own intelligence are not necessarily any more intelligent than we are ourselves.
- It is important to factor in background and opportunity as a means of determining one's own intelligence in relation to the opportunities they have had to learn.
- You can't judge someone on their intellect levels without everyone being given the same opportunities to gain intellect.
- It is a somewhat manmade idea that we must know certain things in order to be deemed "smart".

2. Copyright is Brain Damage
- Creativity and Originality is vital to human advancements.
- We can't keep replaying the pass.
- Maybe we should measure our intelligence in terms of creativity and originality rather than just repeating what everyone else wants us to know.
- How do we measure creativity versus intelligence? Why do they compete?

(Auburn University)

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