General Tips – Page 75 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Leaving your Comfort Zone

2013-12-02

Some comments about the need to change perspectives to come up with creative solutions, and how this is missing when it comes to feminists -- and why.
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Chosing the right battles

2013-12-01

When it comes to discussions, don't try to convince the extremists on the other side. There are better, more relevant and actually attainable people to convince: the juicy middle.
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Neil Gaiman’s Commencement Speech

2013-11-25

One of the best storytellers giving a commencement speech. Yeah.
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Where does your creativity break down?

2013-11-25

Looking at the bottlenecks where your creativity breaks down and dealing with them is the best thing you can do to improve your creativity. Some suggestions.
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Scientific Community #4 — Concluding Remarks

2013-11-23

Summary and three crucial issues when it comes to (correctly) seeing science as social endeavor.
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Scientific Community #3 — Analyzing the Literature to find out more about the Community

2013-11-22

If you want to get into a scientific community without having a supervisor or colleague helping you along, you're pretty much screwed. But there are some things you can do.
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Practitioner Talk in an Academic Setting

2013-11-19

Listening to a person who left Academia to do more practical work showed me how narrow the Academic world-view is. Some notes of the talk.
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Positive Psychology — Seligman’s book “Flourish”

2013-11-15

An introduction to positive psychology, which has nothing to do with putting a smile on bad events, but how to live a positive life. Way beyond mere happiness (or positive emotions), it also looks at Engagement, positive Relationships, Meaning, and Achievement.
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Are you happy with your life? And what are your skills?

2013-11-10

There's a good website with tests that are actually useful and well constructed (not the usual psycho-bubble). It's interesting to do a few of these tests, esp. the skills test, and compare the results over time.
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27 Really Useful iOS Apps on the iPhone

2013-11-07

An overview of 27 apps I frequently use.
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BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.