Self-Improvement – Page 21 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Whatever gets you through the day

2010-05-27

... a comic strip, a quotation, and a few links perhaps. :-)
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Creative Burn Out

2010-05-24

Dealing with burn out -- it happens. Deal with it by not dealing with it. Yup, read on.
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Your Impact

2010-05-22

Does your creative work really matter? What is your real life impact. For the world, for humanity, or at least, for actual human beings outside the research community? A helpful chart based on a group work at an institute.
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Practical Problem Solving

2010-05-19

TED talk showing brilliant though processes to solve problems that matter.
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Real Performance

2010-05-15

An impressive trailer of what performance can mean (in a fictional setting), and how it compares to performance in other areas, e.g., academia.
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Year’s End: Time for a Life Newspaper

2009-12-12

Creating a year's end newspaper about the past year can help you remember the past much better than any diary.
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The Learning Game

2009-12-07

A short reflection on why -- and for what -- you should learn. In school and beyond.
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Roleplay yourself with Skill Levels

2009-08-25

Using a role-playing system to get an overview about your strengths, which skills you have, which you want to achieve, and when.
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This is a private blog showing my opinions. If you have an issue with what I write here, either don’t read it or talk to me directly. Don’t waste your time — or mine — dragging my employer into matters where they hold no authority.

The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

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.