The World Baseball Classic reveals something about the American character and global realities: when we don’t try, we don’t win.
The baseball series, closer to a “world” series than anything that has come before, except the Olympic Games, shows what can happen when Americans believe they’ll prevail just because of the colors on their jerseys, and […]

There are a variety of blocks to creativity:
a) conformity and risk aversion
b) cultural dictates; appropriate behaviour
c) negatively assessing own ideas
d) scientific heritage forces logical thinking
e) ego forces rejection of inappropriate ideas
f) evaluation apprehension
g) competiton causes many people to shut down
h) negative interpretation
i) educated out of creative thinking
j) fear of being perceived as unoriginal, unintelligent
k) illusion […]