Money, Brains, whatever works

After spending two classes discussing the topic, my well-adjusted student L is still unable to grasp the concept of creative thinking. What does one say to a person convinced that she has never in her life had a creative thought, a new idea, an urge to see what happens when she does X?? Suddenly, my own brain seems to function only a few notches below Pablo Picasso's, perhaps even on par with Alan Ball. i asked her questions like these: How do you decide what clothes to put on in the morning? How do you organize the books on your shelves? Why do you take photos when you go on vacation? Simple acts, all dependent on some small amount of original thought, and still she didn't get it. In her mind, there is nothing creative about making necessary everyday decisions. 'It's an obvious thing,' she says, 'we all do this.' And that was my point, we all do this. She lives a somewhat charmed, upper class life. Maybe all that materialism has caused permanent brain damage?

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