Philip Rosedale, Second Life

Living a Second Life as an Avatar

Philip Rosedale, CEO of LInden Lab and creator of Second Life, a public virtual-reality space where people live a parallel existence as avatars, said his users enjoy "this tremendous sense that they are collectively building a new world. When you do something like a charity event in Second Life, people are really engaged...charitable organizations are realizing a higher dollars per return on their event than in the real world."

View Rosedale's video from the IDEA conference:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1370868150/bctid1726720187

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, fulfillment and flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Positive psychologist

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has contributed pioneering work to our understanding of happiness, creativity, human fulfillment and the notion of "flow" -- a state of heightened focus and immersion in activities such as art, play and work.

This TED Talk focuses on Creativity, fulfillment, and flow.

Why you should listen to him:

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. A leading researcher in positive psychology, he has devoted his life to studying what makes people truly happy: "When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life." He is the architect of the notion of "flow" -- the creative moment when a person is completely involved in an activity for its own sake.

Csikszentmihalyi teaches psychology and management at Claremont Graduate University, focusing on human strengths such as optimism, motivation and responsibility. He's the director the the Quality of Life Research Center there. He has written numerous books and papers about the search for joy and fulfillment.

"A man obsessed by happiness."

Richard Flaste, New York Times

What do Michigan millenials want?

For years, Lansing-area leaders have tried to figure out how to hold onto our college graduates, to stem their outflow to big cities. But maybe it’s time to let them go.

Every year, public and private sector leaders try to figure out how to keep college graduates—who are prone to flock to big cities like Chicago—here in the Lansing area.
During an event at Michigan State University (MSU) this past August, Capitol Gains conducted an extremely informal survey of millenials —trapping students as they left the fair and begging them to tell us what would keep them here after graduation.

Click here to read what they learned