The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World

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Born in Philadelphia and raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey, she was a curious kid, staggering home from the library with towers of books in her arms. According to a Huffington Post article, “ Cultural Creatives Are Changing the World ,” updated on Dec 6, 2017, it was estimated that Cultural Creatives could now make up over half of the American population. Most of all, this book provided a framework for understanding American culture that I still utilize today. According to anthropologist Paul Ray, who seems to have named us, “this group has no established leaders, no professed ideology and no cohesive sense of community. It describes the three main categories of people in the Western world: the Moderns, the Traditionals, and the newly-emergent Cultural Creatives.

In Washington and on the Sunday morning news shows, politicians would certainly have strong opinions about what it all means, and pundits would be expressing their views with their usual certainty. In 2008, there was much discussion in the Western media on the 'creative economy' and the importance of the ' creative class'. He did not discuss much about their relationship to business (although he helps businesses market to them), but I noted in my book (The Hidden Soul of Capitalism Through Dynamic Markets Leadership, GDI Press, 2012) that this segment of the population is going to be an important source of distributed leaders in the new era of ethical Capitalism.When we say that a quarter of all Americans have taken on a whole new worldview, we are pointing to a major development in our civilization. But while entrepreneurs use their business for monetary gain, "innerpreneurs" use their business to find personal fulfillment (creatively, spiritually, emotionally) and create social change. The self-reliant lifestyle can be consistent with either the left or the right, but the cultural creatives I know are disgusted with all current political choices. If there are really fifty million of us, that’s more than the total number of Americans who voted for both parties in the 1996 election. These creative, optimistic millions are at the leading edge of several kinds of cultural change, deeply affecting not only their own lives but our larger society as well.

Your Dreams [3] The "innerpreneurs" concept is also central to Ron Rentel's 2008 book Karma Queens, Geek Gods and Innerpreneurs, in which he identified the "Cultural Creative" subculture in entrepreneurship. The characteristics of cultural creatives incorporate a wide variety of traits related to environmentalism, personal growth and social business.Ray to describe a large segment of western society that had recently developed beyond the paradigms of traditionalists and modernists. We are not yet connected in ways that give us the common experience of changing the world together to reflect these values. This compelling book provides historical and detailed macroscopic overviews, interspersed with microscopic interviews with Cultural Creatives from many walks of life, and the fascinating and inspiring stories they each have to share.

Overall, this gives the book an optimistic feel of how we all may respond to similar destructive situations that we encounter. The Cultural Creatives offers a more hopeful future and prepares us all for a transition to a new, saner, and wiser culture. It is important to cultural creatives that their home be a space which fosters creativity, balance and productivity. Whether you are a Cultural Creative or share an office, a home, or a bed with one, or whether you simply want to create new projects or do business with Cultural Creatives, you'll discover what differences their presence will make in your life.Success is a high priority, but they are being recruited to join the Cultural Creatives as they mature and realize that material success is not as satisfying anymore. We encourage intergenerational sharing, to overcome stereotyping and highlight the positive relationships, increased understanding and respect that can develop between generations. Our staff are highly experienced and very knowledgeable in their chosen areas, differentiating to suit participant need s .