In a splendid biography of Renaissance, creative genius, Leonardo Da Vinci, Walter Isaacson quotes Leonardo’s contemporary, Vasari, saying, “He was so generous that he sheltered and fed all of his friends, rich and poor.”  He was not motivated by wealth or material possessions.  In his notebooks, he decried “men who desire nothing but material riches […]

The Big Picture: International Evolution, A New Cure Imagine what happens when cities, states and nations are reflective enough to discover the necessity to establish themselves as “learning societies.”  The relentlessly unfolding world of technological, economic and social change that will continue to characterize the 21st-century implicates the choice of learning society values as the

Here’s the key.  The human development categories labeled “psychological health” and “emotional intelligence” are like twins.  And their characteristics have been shown to be essentially the same as the authentically creative person (Maslow, 1971).  Thus appropriate conditions nurture all three: emotional health, creativity, and psychological balance.  People with these qualities are in great demand.  They