Self-Improvement – Page 19 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

TED Talk by David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence

2012-05-24

Wonderful TED talk by David Kelley about your creative confidence. Very low key but also very … touching.
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Know yourself — or not?

2012-03-09

A nice xkcd showing the dangers of knowing yourself.
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What do you live for?

2012-02-22

How do you answer such a question? Well, how about starting with what you want, and going top down from it.
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That part apart

2012-02-09

Probably the one part that might be crucial for creative works, but it comes with a price. Also: Shakespeare.
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How not to commit suicide

2011-07-30

Stumbled upon a heartbreaking text about what happens when suicide fails.
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What are you doing?

2011-07-16

A powerful scene from "The West Wing" asking a question that might be ... relevant.
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Wishful Thinking

2011-07-09

Why creativity and imagination is not the same thing and placebo's don't work. Also: Some manipulating techniques used by modern quacks.
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Interesting TED Talk about Suicide

2011-06-28

A short but extremely powerful talk about a group that is usually neglected when we think about suicide: The actual survivors.
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Some literature tips to add some creativity to your sex life

2011-05-03

And that area has a lot of potential for creativity ... and fun ... read on. (Only references, but possibly still NSFW)
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Book Tip: The Resilience Factor

2011-02-19

There are few very good books on mental health that are both written by actual experts (psychologists) and useful. This is one of them. Highly recommended. But read on.
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A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

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.