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Can Video Games Help Us Practice Creativity?
Yes. At least, I think so. You can tell when a team has creativity because the room gets louder. Not louder in the brainstorming sense, but louder in the "wait, what if we tried this instead" sense. And you can tell when a team does not have it because everything sounds safe. Most workplaces say they want creativity. Then they build systems that punish every early, awkward attempt at it. We ask people to take risks, but we only reward clean wins. We say "think outside the box
Justin Matheson
Mar 275 min read
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