change_yourself – Page 24 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

PostDoc RoadMap

2010-02-04

How do you plan your post-doc phase? Here's a suggestion. (Update: Looking at it four years later, I think it's too detailed and optimistic. And it needed better feedback.)
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Recommendation: TEDTalk – Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity

2010-02-04

Incredible talk -- not only the content but also the performance.
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Wanting to appear competent vs. being competent

2010-02-01

When feedback about a presentation was ... completely misunderstood and turned into a real fuck-up, I began to think about competence and how some people seem to chose appearance over performance.
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Tweaking the 2-Minute Rule

2009-12-12

You should do a thing immediately if you can do it within 2 minutes -- this raises the question: How can you do more within two minutes?
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It takes time to make time

2009-12-12

Time management takes time, but it is an investment worth making. Some arguments and tips.
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eMails — The other way to keep a diary

2009-12-12

Remembering the past can be difficult, but you leave tracks. Especially your saved eMail communication with a good friend can be very helpful.
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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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Create your own Creative Help-Sheets

2009-09-22

Creating your own help sheets is a good way to learn about a new topic and to remember crucial things in the 'heat of the moment'.
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Wiki Landmines with PHP and the DATE function

2009-09-11

Using PHP in a Wiki (e.g., DokuWiki) to display information only on certain dates, e.g., links to review pages only on weekends.
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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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Besides Blog Postings about multiple topics, the draft version of the third edition of “Organizing Creativity” is freely available as PDF here.

Get the book (yup, free to download :-))

The worksheets to the book are currently being created. The ones that are ready in version 1 are:

Best regards

Daniel

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.