"Our future is a race between good innovation and bad innovation. That's a sprint that will be decided purely by our ability to create. It's a shift so profound that it evokes the ideas of American philosopher John David Garcia, who once said that we should reject the notion that increasing human happiness is the most important goal for society. Far better, he said, to increase human creativity. Happiness will follow."
--Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Age of the Unthinkable
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I simply must read this book. I'm quite practically on the verge of mandating a Summer Reading Program of my own.
I love that. Creativity first, happiness follows. That is certainly true for me. But then I think of all those tortured artists...
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