Recently, I’ve noticed an increasing amount of spam comments that some people, or “spambots”, have attempted to submit to my site.

Gratefully, there’s software that weeds most of that out, so you don’t see it.

But I see it, and I sometimes get a good chuckle out of it because all of these spam comments advertise “male enhancement” products.

I’ve racked my brain trying to figure out what I may have written which would lead these spammers to think that Life Compass Blog would be a good target for “male enhancement” products.

Then it finally dawned on me.  One of the topics I write about here is personal growth! [Read more...]

We don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it.  Or rather, we get educated out of it. – Sir Ken Robinson, TED 2006

Sir Ken Robinson, speaking at TED 2006

Is there a relationship between creativity and personal development?

It’s been on my mind recently, thanks to news stories and blog postings I’ve read about motivating creativity in poor economic times, creativity in business, and creativity and innovation.

In addition, my wife and I were just discussing how we can better foster an environment of creativity for our kids, whom we home school.

Somehow, in the last week or two, I ran across a very thought-provoking video of Sir Ken Robinson speaking at TED.  I think I found it because someone tweeted it on Twitter, and I’m very glad they did! By the way, you can follow me on Twitter: @RichAvery.

In the video, Sir Ken makes the assertion that schools and businesses kill creativity.  For our society to succeed at meeting it’s greatest challenges, we must embrace learning styles that nurture and foster [Read more...]