In a recent Newsweek article by Po Bronson and Ashley Merriman,  it was reported America is in a Creativity Crisis and that test scores have steadily declined since 1990. The reasons are not quite understood yet, but the suspect is a shift in engaging in TV and video games versus creative activities.  We all know that our school systems are reporting record low scores and that the school day is filled with “must do” subjects. 

What struck me in reading the article was neuroscience that is known on how to learn to be creative thinkers and solve problems creatively. (Something this world needs).

“ The lore of pop psychology is that creativity occurs on the right side of the brain. But we now know that if you tried to be creative using only the right side of your brain, it’d be like living with ideas perpetually at the tip of your tongue, just beyond reach.”   And all this time I have been trying to draw only on the right side of the brain.