living_as_a_creative – Page 69 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

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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Dissertation Crises

2010-05-17

A overview of the possible crises that can happen during a PhD -- sorted in beginning, mid, and end, and each with Description, What breaks you, and possible solution. Highly recommended for PhDs.
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Media-free Zone for Creativity

2010-05-14

Media can be extremely stimulating, but perhaps some zones should be media-free. At least free of some media.
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Dissertation Crisis — Past the Mountain

2010-05-10

In many PhD theses, you come to the point where everything seems like a failure and your self-confidence is just shattered. That's normal. Read and bugger on.
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Creative Glitter

2010-05-10

You know what I mean? The fluff some "creative" people surround themselves with? Well ...
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Dealing with Idea Landslides

2010-03-28

Sometimes ideas don't just pour -- the landscape moves. What to do in these situations, with an example of having a mental breakthrough when it came to understanding programming.
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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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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.