Dr. David Eagleman

Okay, creativity, that's easy.

That has to do with learning the foundational stuff and then doing remixes, bending, breaking, blending, doing new versions of it.

And I think schools can implement this easily and without any extra expense, which is...

You have to teach the foundational stuff, but you compress that so you have one extra week at the end of each semester.

And then that last week you say, oh great, take everything you've learned and now make your own thing with it.

Using all the elements that we've learned, bend it, break it, blend it, make your own version of this.

That kind of exercise is, that is creativity.

That's all creativity is, is taking your storehouse of knowledge and doing remixes.

We should be teaching that.

So critical thinking and creativity.

Goethe, the German philosopher, had said there are two bequests that a parent can give a child.

One is roots and one is wings.

And my interpretation of that has always been critical thinking and creativity.

Seek novelty.

That's the whole game is you got to continually challenge the brain.

And this is something that as we get older, it's more important than ever.

It's finding new things that we haven't done before.

You always have to keep yourself between the levels of frustrating but achievable.

And as long as you're trying new things.

So yes, a new instrument is great.