Archive for 'Creativity' Category
Mangle Your Moleskine!
Some of you need break the spine of your Moleskine notebook. Some of you need to throw your Star Wars notebook onto the sidewalk and stomp it a couple of times. Some of you need to buy a cheap student notebook from your nearest dollar store.
Here’s why.
Perfect notebooks can limit our creativity. Notebooks with unblemished [...]
LANsagna Party
A funny thing happened on the way to the lasagna.
My sister and I has some friends over for a late dinner last night. While we were waiting for the lasagna to bake, a LAN party broke out! Long story short, I introduced a gamer friend to another gamer and got the first gamer addicted (hopefully) [...]
Father and Son
My father listened to Reading My Book Aloud 002 last week, and commented that while his poetry is self-explanatory, I tend to explain my poems. That was an intriguing observation, and I’ve been thinking about it all week. I’ve come up with a couple of, um, explanations.
I write to organize/categorize/energize/exorcise my emotions. I feel that [...]
Using People
Being a creative/innovative person is a pretty good life, isn’t it? Yet, creativity/innovation doesn’t happen by itself. You have to feed your imagination if you want to remain fully creative.
One way to stay creative is to hang out with people who stimulate your thinking. There are at least three kinds of people who can help [...]
What is a Creative Person?
Just a quick explanation of what I mean by “creative person.” Everybody has the ability to be creative and innovative. When I use the phrase “creative person,” I am referring to a person who has made it a priority to create and innovate. Most often, I think of writers, musicians, painters, movie makers and other [...]
The Exhausted Creative
Even creative people get tired.
Admit it. Right now, your eyes are closing and you’re starting to snore. Maybe you shouldn’t have stayed up all night working on that important, all-consuming creative project . . . but I understand. Sometimes you just gotta.
The question is, what creative activities can you pursue when you’re tired? Sometimes you [...]
Motivated by Drowning
If you think about it, almost drowning is one way of learning to swim.
I’m now using WordPress to create this site, and I have no idea what I’m doing. I feel like I’m in over my head. However, I’m also feeling more excited about yonderman.com than I have in a long time! This website has [...]
What’s Your Problem?
Creative people sometimes have difficulty finding a target for their creativity. They know they can create really cool stuff that can possibly change the world, but they don’t know where to start. They have no direction. The goal of this post is to help you find a direction for your creativity.
Let us imagine that there [...]