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Update: Are Happiness and Innovation at Odds?

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

See the original post here. What motivates people is something that interests me. I do not think reactivity is the core of innovation, but I do think it plays a notable role. All areas of life bleed into one another and shade them accordingly. Sectors of life don’t exist in isolation. In rereading my post [...]

Are Happiness and Innovation at Odds?

Friday, February 13th, 2009

See update to this post. It seems many people’s innovative drive come from a reactive desire to prove themselves. They try to prove, often to the opposite sex, that they are someone worth knowing by showing they are extremely competent in some unrelated discipline like science or technology. It pains me to see people with such a distorted sense of [...]