Creative Constraints: Tenner and 10x

Yesterday, in response to a post about the need to and power of accepting difference in the school education system, I sent a message to a dear friend in Cayman around how, globally, we remain largely stuck in the industrial era system of education that, two hundred years on, still looks to create people good at the three ‘r’s (reading, ‘riting, ‘rithmatic), yet when diversity appears, whether in terms of how students having differences in function and processing or simply fresh ideas outside the accepted norm, our system both struggles to support students as well as to accept diverse ideas and views.

Now, in a serendipitous way, today I connected to an idea which could support diverse ideas in Cayman and beyond.

First, on numerous occasions I have written from different directions around the idea of creative constraints, most recently (also) yesterday with: “Create Boundaries, then Improvise”

In response to that post, Oli Barrett, a highly creative, prolific and abundant person who lives to connect people and ideas, replied on Twitter (see threads here and here), resulting in me looking up “Tenner”, now called the 10x Challenge. In short, Oli noted: “I’m convinced that Tenner’s boundaries (£10, one month, one challanege) sparks rather than dampens creativity.”, then as I replied with curiousity about Tenner: “We started Tenner…