{"id":12798,"date":"2015-01-08T12:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T20:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12798"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:09:00","slug":"how-creative-are-you-pt-iii-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/how-creative-are-you-pt-iii-environment","title":{"rendered":"How Creative Are You? Pt. III \u2014 Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>One of the major aspects that can make or break a creative person according to FM-2030 is the environment. In his book \u201cAre You A Transhuman?\u201d, he asks the reader to grade their own surroundings: \u201cDoes your home environment stimulate innovation \u2014 cross fertilization \u2014 initiative?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We bet you can see where this is going.<\/p>\n<p>The answers are, once more, \u201cOften, Sometimes, or Hardly Ever\u201d, with \u201cOften being the answer choice that gives you the most points \u2014 another 2 to tally up to your score if you\u2019re already proving to be more transhumanist that you thought. It might seem obvious, but it\u2019s true \u2014 environment can play a major role in the stimulation of creativity. FM says that \u201cIt is difficult to be precise about creativity \u2014 how much of it is inherited and how much is learned.\u201d If an environment is one that \u201cencourages free unrestricted thinking\u2026 encourages people to take initiatives\u2026 open and ever-changing\u201d, it is a dynamic environment that can stimulate creativity in an individual.<\/p>\n<p>People who work with telecommunications are susceptible to views that are far different than their own, and the sciences, though structured, force a person to think creatively to find answers. By the same token, people who have a good balance of leisure time and work are also cultivating a greater internal environment to stimulate creativity. And in case you were forgetting the reason creativity is important to FM-2030, perhaps take a look at his quote that sums up the chapter perfectly, below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the major aspects that can make or break a creative person according to FM-2030 is the environment. In his book \u201cAre You A Transhuman?\u201d, he asks the reader to grade their own surroundings: \u201cDoes your home environment stimulate innovation \u2014 cross fertilization \u2014 initiative?\u201d We bet you can see where this is going. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,1501],"tags":[1731,1732,1733,1755,1756,1735,1726,2133,2168,222,251],"class_list":["post-12798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-transhumanism-2","tag-beyondbiology","tag-refusetodie","tag-are-you-a-transhuman","tag-creativity","tag-environment","tag-fm-2030","tag-forecasting-the-future","tag-futurism","tag-innovation","tag-technology","tag-transhumanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46660,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798\/revisions\/46660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}