Do you have any idea which age we are in? Last time I checked we were in the information age. Now, I am told, we are living in Imagination Age. The Imagination Age is a period beyond the Information Age where creativity and imagination are the primary creators of economic value. This contrasts with the […]
Standing desks at workplaces are becoming increasingly prevalent. Despite complaints about aching legs and strain on spines, more and more people are choosing them. The pay-off is just not in health benefits but also in productivity. An average person sits for approximately twelve hours a day. The doctors are warning that sitting is the new […]
At last, there are a few more people on this planet who have the same views as mine about ‘mediocrity.’ So much so that Tim Wu, the author of The Attention Merchants has written an opinion post in the New York Times In Praise of Mediocrity. Tim has pointed out there is a slow disappearance […]
How unforgiving and overdisciplined we have become. We not only can’t forgive others but also ourselves. We are harsher on ourselves than we are on others. We judge and punish ourselves if we think that we have not done what we expected to do. We deprive ourselves of the kindness we preach ourselves to offer […]
Elizabeth Gilbert in her book Big Magic wrote: “A clever, independent, creative and powerful woman in her mid-seventies offered me a superb piece of life wisdom. We all spend our twenties and thirties trying so hard to be perfect because we’re so worried about what people will think of us. Then we get into our forties […]
There is a Buddhist proverb, when the student is ready teacher will appear. I must be ready when I spotted Austin Kleon’s book How to Steal Like an Artist in a newsletter from one of the bookstores. Out of a list of one hundred I selected three. How to Steal Like an Artist was way […]
Lately, I have been lamenting that I do not have time for creativity. My excuses are: it is winter, it is too cold, days are shorter, I am too tired, I need to wind down after coming back from work. Blah! Blah! Blah! In Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the […]
English socialist and social psychologist Graham Wallas, proposed four stages of creative process in his book The Art of Thought, published in 1926. These stages are preparation, incubation, illumination and verification. The preparation is the feeding stage. Brain is hungry for knowledge so you got to feed it. At this stage your brain is like […]
Below are ten things I find worth sharing this week. This week I explored creativity. From trying to figure out What is creativity, I explored Is being creative means being original, and shared Seven Principles of Creative Living. “Creative is not a Noun” post by Austin Kleon is priceless. I recommend that if you do […]
Lawrence G Boldt, a writer, career consultant, and a personal coach gives seven principles for creative living in his book How to Be, Do or Have Anything: 1. Among human beings, creativity is a natural, and not an exceptional, trait. Birds fly, fish swim, humans create. 2. For the individual, personal freedom and self-fulfillment depend […]
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