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// June 27th, 2008 // Creativity

… and most of you know you aren’t deep thinkers. Come on, admit it.

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5 Responses to “I worry you’re not a deep thinker”

  1. Finalspin says:

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  2. [...] This extract on skating over ideas and invest in some deeper thinking comes from a speech to new graduates at The Pacific Northwest College of Art. Susan S Szenasy , editor of the Metropolis Magazine told the students: As artists and communication designers you can choose to be the outriders of society. Like the scouts in the old western films, you can be in the position of surveying the horizon and alerting the rest of us to the dangers and surprises ahead. But I worry about you. I worry that while you have evolved the use of your thumbs to work at phenomenal speeds, you are adobe contribute cs4 mac price not as interested in developing the habits you need to adobe contribute cs4 mac price accumulate knowledge, knowledge that adobe contribute cs4 mac price can inform your vision as artists. I mean knowledge of the adobe contribute cs4 mac price world—science, literature, and history—knowledge of the adobe contribute cs4 mac price great contributions others are making or have made to our rich understanding of humanity and adobe contribute cs4 mac price the earth which gives us life. It is adobe contribute cs4 mac price not enough to find information instantly and use it opportunistically to adobe contribute cs4 mac price support your argument. To be adobe contribute cs4 mac price able to analyze and synthesize you need to delve deeply into a adobe contribute cs4 mac price subject, build up your understanding incrementally, and own that knowledge. Own it, so you adobe contribute cs4 mac price can call it up when you need it, without turning to adobe contribute cs4 mac price your PDA, and use your amazing brain-power to interpret what adobe contribute cs4 mac price you know when critical analysis is needed. What I’m asking of you adobe contribute cs4 mac price is what I have always asked of myself: To be endlessly curious about everything, to adobe contribute cs4 mac price search for facts when you need them, but more importantly, to adobe contribute cs4 mac price search for ideas and meaning. Read a book, look at a adobe contribute cs4 mac price building or a landscape, drink it all in—make it your own. For more read here. Hat tip to Canufluck. [...]

  3. Isn’t that what tenured profs are for?

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