Creativity and Independence.
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"...we should all be concerned that our system may be too extreme in rewarding conscientiousness and punishing creativity."
This is as close as a conundrum get's to answering a paradox...me thinkst...what say you?
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So the question is, to what degree is conscientiousness universally good - and to what degree is our society merely structured to reward it?
Our schools love to pay creativity lip service, but those aren’t the students that get celebrated.
Teachers rewarded repressed drones, according to Bowles and Gintis; they found that the students with the highest Grad Point Averages were the ones who scored lowest on measures of creativity and independence, and the highest on measures of punctuality, delay of gratification, predictability and dependability.
Teachers often say they love creative students. They don’t.
Judgments for the favourite student were negatively correlated with creativity; judgments for the least favorite student were positively correlated with creativity. Students displaying creative characteristics appear to be unappealing to teachers.
The workplace isn’t any different.
Bowles and Gintis then consulted similar scales for office workers, and they found that supervisors judged their workforce the way teachers judged their students. They gave low ratings to employees with high levels of creativity and independence and high ratings to those workers with high levels of tact, punctuality, dependability and delay of gratification.
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