Creativity and the individual

I completely agree with Susan Cain "The Rise Of The New Groupthink" in the New York Times Sunday Review.  A group does not think.  A group gravitates to the power of the person who leads or who will not adjust to any other view but their own.  They wear a group down.  And as Cain indicates.  Groups are easy to hide in.  The best creative work is done by a person working, doing the heavy lifting, on their own.
Pep talks and encouragement is always great.  It helps.  A good group can give that to a person.  The work itself takes persistence, dedication and devotion to what they are doing.  That comes from the person's ethic.

Technology, creativity

reading "What defines a Meme?"  by James Gleick writing in the May issue of the Smithsonian Magazine.   He refers to Richard Dawkin contention the center of life, the center of the cell, is information, instructional code.  Evolution is the exchange between a self (organism) and the environment.  Gleick says we are surrounded by technology.  It does seem to be absorbing us.  Technology increases our interactions and exchanges.  The hard part is being creative and not becoming passive, thus consumed. Writing sure is easier than in the day of clay tablets and sharp sticks.