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Note to Self

Why You Should Care About LEGO and Creativity

Note to Self

WNYC Studios

Self-improvement, Tech, Note, Npr, Education, Public, Wnyc, Manoush, York, To, New, Self, Radio, Business, Technology, Relationships, City, Society & Culture, Zomorodi, Newtechcity

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Your kid's seven new LEGO kits really do matter for the future of creative thinking.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Should you take coding or poetry?

0:07.0

Should you think like an engineer or like an artist?

0:13.7

Is it possible for your brain to do both?

0:19.5

Turns out the answer may be found here in a pile of light.

0:28.0

It's note to self, the tech show about being human.

0:35.0

It's gone through the generations, everyone has Lego.

0:38.0

Everybody has Lego, everybody has Lego and they're younger.

0:40.0

We have a very large bin of Lego's at home,

0:43.0

some of which were my husbands as a kid and some of which we bought.

0:48.0

I'm a new summer ready.

0:51.0

Everything is awesome, everything is cool when you're part of a team.

0:57.0

You're listening to the theme song to the Lego movie.

1:00.0

And yeah, most people think Lego is awesome.

1:04.0

But there's a reason why I saw Lego everywhere when I recently went to visit Google's New York City headquarters.

1:11.0

I mean so many techies say that their love of building, of creating, started with those little bricks at a very young age,

1:19.0

and that they still use them as grown-ups to prototype things,

1:22.0

to try things out on their desk to get their creative juices flowing.

1:26.0

Why is that Dr. Moro?

1:27.0

It is.

1:28.0

I have a nine-year-old son.

1:30.0

So I have an eight-year-old.

1:33.0

So you can make a big difference.

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