I learned today that:
Experiments show that most children rank highly creative (right brain) before entering school. Because our educational systems place a higher value on left brain skills such as mathematics, logic and language than it does on drawing or using our imagination, only ten percent of these same children will rank highly creative by age 7. By the time we are adults, high creativity remains in only 2 percent of the population.
This explains a lot to me. I've wondered why I was "creative" and surrounded by people who are not. The reason is because I didn't attend school when I was a kid. I did everything I could to get out of it and when I did go I was usually not paying attention. So there's a real corollary between slackers and creativity.
