LEGO Kits and Your Creative Soul
Note to Self
WNYC Studios
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're exploring the future of creativity, the best ways to brainstorm, and the importance of free-association, all through the lens of every techie's favorite toy: LEGO.
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| 0:00.0 | Should you take coding or poetry? |
| 0:06.0 | Should you think like an engineer or like an artist? |
| 0:12.0 | Is it possible for your brain to do both? |
| 0:18.0 | Turns out the answer may be found here in a pile of light. |
| 0:28.0 | From WNYC, I'm a new summer Odie and this is Note2self. |
| 0:34.0 | It's gone through the generations, everyone has Lego. |
| 0:39.0 | The show where you and I find balance in the digital age. |
| 0:43.0 | We have a very large bin of like us at home, some of which were my husbands as a kid and some of which we bought. |
| 0:50.0 | And figure out how to manage modern life. |
| 0:58.0 | You're listening to the theme song to the Lego movie. |
| 1:03.0 | And yeah, most people think Lego is awesome. |
| 1:07.0 | But if you've ever stepped on a piece of Lego or you've been hounded by your child to buy yet another kit, this episode is for you. |
| 1:15.0 | There's a little bit of a dark side to Lego. |
| 1:18.0 | And if you've ever wondered like what can I do to stand out at work? |
| 1:24.0 | How can I have ideas that make people go? |
| 1:27.0 | Wow, she's got something. |
| 1:30.0 | Well, this episode is for you too. |
| 1:33.0 | There's a reason why I saw Lego everywhere when I recently went to visit Google's New York City headquarters. |
| 1:40.0 | I mean so many techies say that their love of building, of creating, started with those little bricks at a very young age. |
| 1:47.0 | And that they still use them as grown-ups to prototype things, to try things out on their desk to get their creative juices flowing. |
| 1:54.0 | Hi, is that Dr. Moro? |
| 1:55.0 | It is. |
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