change_yourself – Page 3 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

ChatGPT as Counsellor

2024-01-29

ChatGPT is astonishingly good in taking the role of a counsellor.

Image: Ezri Dax from «Star Trek DS9» via https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ezri_Dax
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Using past Mistakes to Learn for the Future

2024-01-27

A comment on people's behavior during the Covid pandemic and that this does not mean they have to act the same in the future.
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Leaderboards for Optimal Behavior

2024-01-27

A short comment on the use of leaderboards in gamified apps, especially health apps.

Image from «Divergent».
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Keeping Your Head Clear in the Morning

2023-12-03

Simple (but not easy) effective method to keep the head free in the morning.
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Digital Devices might kill Invisible Childhood Friends

2023-10-11

Wondering whether one consequence of digital devices for children is the elimination of invisible friends (or pretend companions).

Image: Edited Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strips (with apologies to Bill Watterson and Apple).
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Using the City — Courses (here: learning about amber)

2023-08-20

Trying out touristy courses can be quite interesting.
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Sobering Up

2023-05-06

Trying to stop drinking alcohol worked out — for over a year now.
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Getting up Early in the Morning

2023-05-06

Using an old fashioned alarm clock it is really helpful to get out of bed early in the morning, and getting up early has a few other benefits.
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Recommendation: Kipling’s If—

2023-05-04

Beautiful poem well-suited for our times. (Yeah, it's poetry, but hell, it doesn't suck.)
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Changing Habits to Read More Books

2023-02-05

There are lots of tips on changing habits, and lots of them refer to reading more books. In the end, the method has to fit to the person. So here's another (argument for an) option.
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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.