Slightly Off-Topic Postings – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Fairy Tale – Hansel and Gretel

2026-11-11

An incredibly powerful fairy tale about necessity to justify betrayal, knowing better but yielding, and surviving by loyalty, discernment, ingenuity, and decisive action.
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Fairy Tale – Mother Holle

2026-11-04

An expanded fairy tale about learning to do things well enough that your judgment, work, and life can become truly your own — and about the difference between accepting correction and endlessly shifting burdens onto others.
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Fairy Tale – Old Sultan

2026-10-28

Short fairy tale about loyalty and its limits.
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Fairy Tale – The Three Little Pigs

2026-10-21

A classic fairy tale, slightly edited.
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Fairy Tale – The Peasant and the Devil

2026-10-14

A fairy tale about the value of practical knowledge.
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Fairy Tale – The Old Man and His Grandson

2026-10-07

Very short Grimm fairy tale about respect for the old.
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Fairy Tale – The Nail

2026-09-30

A fairy tale about how great misfortune can come from tiny neglect.
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Fairy Tale – The Spirit in the Bottle

2026-09-24

Wish-fulfillment story turned into father-and-son fairy tale.
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Fairy Tale – The Husband and the Parrot

2026-09-23

A fairy tale about motivated reasoning and corrupted witnesses.
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Fairy Tale – The Forest Spirit

2026-09-16

Using a story synopsis as basis for a fairy tale.
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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.