Summary of Maria Brito's How Creativity Rules the World

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#1 I thought about going back to Venezuela, as I had done many times before, to see my paternal grandparents and feel the humidity of the streets, and to be back in my childhood home in El Hatillo, a working-class neighborhood on the slopes of Mount Parque. -> I had been working nonstop since the start of the pandemic, traveling from one city to the next, and I felt nostalgic for Caracas, the city I had grown up in and left behind fifteen years earlier.

#2 I couldn’t believe it when I found out that my grandfather had been kidnapped, and I was shocked to see him alive in a video clip of the event.

#3 My grandfather was a brilliant, creative, and inquisitive man who had many interests and abilities, which allowed him to be creative and original in his ideas and their execution. He was kidnapped by Marxist guerrilla forces in Venezuela in 1971.

#4 My grandfather was a creative and inquisitive man who had many interests and abilities, which allowed him to be creative and original in his ideas and their execution. He was kidnapped by Marxist guerrilla forces in 1971.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Oct 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350031720

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Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was born in Venezuela, and I survived two failed coups d’état. I lived in New York City after the financial crisis of 2008, Hurricane Sandy, and fights between political extremists. I never imagined that in the era of technology, we would face such an unprecedented opponent.

#2

I Googled my grandfather’s name in 2020, and the first hit was a video of him arriving at his house after being kidnapped by the Venezuelan guerrillas in 1971. I was stunned. I had never seen these images before.

#3

My grandfather, who was also my first example of what being creative can do for people’s lives and their fulfillment, was a brilliant, creative, and inquisitive person. He developed many abilities and interests, and he was always looking to expand.

#4

My grandfather was a victim of a kidnapping, and the money he paid was half of his savings. He started a new business, and continued acquiring art and selling it. He had such a level of dignity and respect for work, people, and life in general.

#5

Creativity and crisis are often linked. The biggest human developments, industrial advances, and most important art movements have happened after big crises. When we find ourselves with limited resources, when we must figure out how to react to difficulty, creativity thrives.

#6

The US government went to great lengths to ensure that the exhibition called The New American Painting, which included the works of Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, toured the globe. It debuted in Basel, then went to Milan, Madrid, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Paris. It triumphantly retuned to America with a massive show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1959.

#7

The pandemic caused me to be extremely vulnerable and extremely creative. It brought me back to the memories I had of my grandfather, who was the banker-doctor. He was always able to solve everyone’s problems, and his most brilliant ideas came after the most severe calamities.

#8

During a crisis, take an inventory of your skills, connections, resources, and knowledge. You may have more than you think you do. Use your answers as a foundation to start something new or tweak what you have