Penguinate: a verb that means to use creativity in constructive matters to make life and the world better for you and others. Penguinators are the people who practice such creativity and support www.penguinate.com through book purchases, site visits and Patreon.
Not all creativity is constructive. People who rob banks or steal identities on the Internet are creatives using their power to perpetrate acts of evil. Oil company researchers are creative whether what they do is good or bad depends on where you stand on the arguments against fossil fuels. Cigarette advertisers are creative. Their efforts do not make the world a better place or encourage a healthy lifestyle.
Positive Creativity
At penguinate.com, we believe that creativity in a positive form is the key to living a healthier life and self-actualization. Through creativity, people have more fun and achieve greater self-esteem as the realize the power that they have. When you become empowered to bring to the world your creative endeavors, you become the best version of yourself and help others to achieve the same thing.
Penguinate History
In 2012, a group of students sat at the eighth table in a Walt Disney World College Program Creativity and Innovation class. They came up with a mascot: penguins, because the penguins in Mary Poppins are awesome. They came up with a slogan: Creativity to the infinite power, because an infinity sign looks like a sideways 8, and they came up with “penguinate,” the combination of penguin and 8 to describe what they would do for the rest of the semester. (The group is not supported or endorsed by the Walt Disney Company.)
Join us!
Even Penguinators are prone to having a bad day and using creativity in ways that are less than ideal, but we value the effort of people who are trying to improve the world through the advancement efforts that creativity brings about. Beauty, better technology, better solutions to problems people may already think solved and to those problems that haven’t been solved, yet. The Penguinators are awesome, and we invite you to join us and create for the greater good. #penguinate