Creativity through Simplicity
In the modern world, complexity can be the enemy of creativity. Tools that are too complicated, projects that are too overwhelming, the distractions of the modern world, too many cooks, too many...
View ArticleExercising to lose weight not for every ‘body’.
This comes from the “You’ve got to be kidding” medical research area. But I wasn’t surprised. Investigators at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the...
View ArticleTwyla Tharp’s Creative Habit
Twyla Tharp, who is now 80 years old, gets up at some ungodly hour like 5:30 AM, hails a cab outside her upper West Side New York apartment, and goes to the gym every morning. As a dancer, she...
View ArticleRe-framing
Sometimes you can change your experience by re-framing it – that is, the attitude you bring with you to the room will create a different reality than if you walked in with a different attitude. Here...
View ArticlePAINTING TIPS FROM THE MASTERS
Titian It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.The painter must always seek the essence of things, always...
View ArticleI wonder if you knew
I wonder if you know, the work your body has done today. And every day. How much disease it has fought off. How many times it could have failed but battled on, how many ways it could have broken but...
View ArticleNothing Doing
The glorification of busy will destroy us. Without space for healing, without time for reflection, without an opportunity to surrender, we risk a complete disconnect from the authentic self. We burn...
View ArticleFrom the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote in his Meditations about the things he had learned from other. Number 12 is: From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or...
View ArticleJust a question
James Clear’s question of the day or week or whatever he does: Which of your current habits is least aligned with the type of person you hope to become?
View ArticleJohn Cleese’s Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
This short book is about Cleese’s own experience with creativity, as well as a sprinkling of some of the science around it. This is a very short summary: You can teach people how to be more creative...
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