Hughes and Pearce

Hughes 5
"At mundane level, most People achieve creative solution to new problems" (61) This is a quote that I picked up from the passage and beleive is true because most of the time it takes painful or life altering events to bring out the best in us. Only through problems does one grow intellectally and spiritually. Another quote I liked about this chapter is in pg 65 "The creative is attracted by the unrealized and drawn towards its realization". We are motivated by the possibilities that is unrealized and lay in us and we all have a potential that can be tapped by share will and drive.
In chapter 7 of hughes it talks about creativiuty and society. This comes into play with leadership and our individual and compiled ability to be inventive and innovative. As I wrote in my paper on cretivity earlier in the semester It takes the best cretive mind to govern and lead a nation of people or to be a leader in an organization or company. One has to be ablke to think out of the box for solutions on our toughest problems and how to better the peolple's lives they are leading. As a whole if not for the ability to be creative we wouldn't have advanced as a civilization we would have been stuck inthe stone age.
Chapter 8 of Hughes was interesting also. The part about childhood imagination and prodigies was fascinating to read. I think that children have the best imagination possibe. For them sky is not the limit they have such a vivid imagination. I know this for a fact because I remember what kind of imagination I had even at 6 years old. prodigies was fascinating because those are the choosen ones. They are a category of their own. Even speaking of them makes me jealous and wishful.
Pearce
I don't think there is much distinction between us and animals because we are similar in the basic structure of our cognitive wirings except we were meant to be the smarter speceies due to our more sophisticated wirings of the brain. They were meant to roam around in the wild and we were meant to carry on God's work and sustain the planet and advance mankind. Animals and Humans were both created the same in God's light.