Archives for the 'Creativity' Category
a whack on the side of the head [Creativityist]
As I mentioned (or threatened) earlier, here is the second part of our tour stop for the Post2Post virtual book tour. I’d like to share with you some of my experience as I read A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative.
Whack is an easy read, but don’t [...]
q&a with roger von oech [Creativityist]
Today, we are the tour stop for the Post2Post virtual book tour. I’m honored to be hosting Roger von Oech, author of the new revised and updated A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative.
I’ll be posting some thoughts on my own experience with the book later today. In [...]
reading journal [Creativityist]
I’m an avid reader. I set a goal each year to read an average of a book a week. I enjoy reading, but it is also a discipline of creative work. Ideas rarely initiate out of nowhere. Some of my most creative thoughts cascade out of other ideas, and reading provides me with a torrent [...]
post2post tour [Creativityist]
I’m excited that Creativityist is going to be a stop on the Post2Post virtual book tour two weeks from today. We will be interacting with Roger von Oech about the re-release of his classic work on creativity: A Whack on the SIde of the Head.
Here’s the rundown of the tour that week:
Mon, June 16 - [...]
My Top Creativity “Happy Places” [Productivity @ Home]
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.†Scott Adams
Over at Productivity501 yesterday, Mark Shead had a post yesterday entitled Jumpstart Your Creativity at the Library.
Mark’s post got me thinking about my own "happy places" - the places where my mind is free to wander, to create, and [...]
some love for my kindle [Creativityist]
While traveling the past few weeks, I read The Starfish and the Spider for a research project I have due later this month. I read it on my Amazon Kindle. The Kindle experience is turning out to be all I hoped it would — other than having to turn it off for takeoff and landing.
I [...]
lazy saturday links - 02.23.08 [Creativityist]
Some of my favorite links on creativity and workflow from the interweb this week:
Frozen Grand Central (YouTube) - Improv Everywhere creates a scene at Grand Central.
How to Schedule Your Writing Like a Professional Writer (Study Hacks) - Some helpful tips to make writing a regular part of your way of life. (via Lifehacker)
Running the Numbers: [...]
creativity loves company [Creativityist]
I read Ethan Watters’ Urban Tribes in 2005. While I thought the book was interesting, what stuck with me most was the realm in which the book was written. Ethan Watters is one of the co-founders of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. It is a shared “office for the creative self-employed” operating with the hypothesis [...]
creativity begets creativity [Creativityist]
Two elemental fears sabotage my creative process time and again.
The first fear is that my creative expressions won’t be received well by others. It would take many blog entries (and hours of therapy) to unravel that fear. That’s not what this blog entry is about…I’m afraid no one would want to read about that anyway. [...]
Best Posts: November 2007 [Organize IT]
Better late than never, here is a summary of the best posts from November. It was a very eventful month with a move to the new domain and a radical redesign which has brought about a great many benefits. I feel the new posting schedule has really revitalized my enthusiasm for Organize IT and improved [...]