How Collaboration Has Made the Human Brain Bigger

How Collaboration Has Made the Human Brain Bigger

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In this article “Collaboration Makes Our Brains Bigger,” Gaurav Bhalla references a TED talk by Dan Gilbert to mention how the human brain has grown significantly in size over the last 200,000 years due to its power of imagination. Moreover, the development of the kind of imagination was mentioned as well, i.e. that We moved from imagining, “How big is the universe?” to imagining, “How do we work together to build a spaceship to get to the moon?”   So, collaboration seems to be one of the main reasons we developed imagination. In other words, we became Homo Sapiens because we had a better brain that could imagine how to collaborate, and because we could imagine how to collaborate we became better Homo Sapiens. And the more we learn to collaborate — and that includes the list of things like co-creation, value creation, open innovation, collaborative innovation, collective innovation, and continuous innovation — the more our brains will grow. Image: "Education" by Sean...
The Pig of Happiness

The Pig of Happiness

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In order to try to increase by however small amount the world’s reserves of happiness, if it touches you – please share it so that together we can spread the love quietly, gently person-to-person – that’s what internet is good at, isn’t it?… –The Pig of Happiness: An original animated film by Edward Monkton. Watching it is likely to make you a happier person. Sharing it with your friends is likely to make them happier too. So spread the love & press play. Voice by Geoffrey Palmer Animation by Andy Veasey for Essence Music by Simon Bass Sound by Zak Kurtha and Scott Marshall for Angel’s Egg Post Production by Essence Produced by Giles Andreae Image: "Peppa Pig and sisters" by Riccardo...
Look Up – Spoken Word with Lyrics by Gary Turk

Look Up – Spoken Word with Lyrics by Gary Turk

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I have four-hundred-and-twenty-two friends, yet I am lonely. I speak to all of them everyday, yet none of them really know me. The problem I have sits in the spaces between looking into their eyes or at a name on a screen. I took a step back and opened my eyes, I looked around to realize the media we call social is anything but. When we open our computers, and it’s our doors we shut. All this technology we have it’s just an illusion. Community companionship a sense of inclusion yet, when you step away from this device of delusion, you awaken to see a world of confusion. A world where we’re slaves to the technology we mastered, where information gets sold by some rich greedy bastard. A world of self interest, self image, self promotion. Where we all share our best bits, but, leave out the emotion. Were at ‘almost happy’ with an experience we share, but is it the same if no one is there? Be there for your friends and they’ll be there too, but no one will be if a group message will do. We edit and exaggerate, crave adulation. We pretend not to notice the social isolation. We put our words into order and turn our lives a-glistening. We don’t even know if anyone is listening! Being alone isn’t a problem let me just emphasize; if you read a book, paint a picture, or do some exercise. You’re being productive and present not reserved and recluse. You’re being awake and attentive and putting your time to good use. So when you’re in public, and you start to feel alone. Put your...