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Just came across a quick but high performance interview piece with creativity expert Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way . She explains “how she does it” and offers an overview of her techniques for unlocking creativity and tips for overcoming some common blocks or obstacles. Check out this Success Magazine article for highlights including [...]
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If you haven’t read the old 80’s era creativity book, A Whack on the Side of the Head: How to Unlock your Mind For Innovation by Silicon Valley creativity guru Roger von Oech, you should. As von Oech describes it, the book explains how you can engage in mental sex – meaning “sex of our [...]
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Today I took my Wreck this Journal journal to the park for an outing, a little fresh air, some sunshine. Then I burned it up.
A bit overdone, perhaps, but tasty!
HEY WRECK STARS! KEEP ON WRECKING!!!!
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Recent Reptitude posts examined some of the ideas, exercises and techniques psychologist and creativity expert Eric Maisel presents in his self-taught creativity course or creativity manual, Coaching the Artist Within. You might find these posts useful as a companion to the book or as self-review tools, or as reminders to help you stay on track [...]
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Wreck this Journal game: week 6 (or 7), how it played out.
That “let it go” page has been bothering me for weeks so today I decided this would be “The Day I Lose It” no matter what.
In mid-afternoon I left it inside a local freebie newsprint magazine that I found on the coffee table in [...]
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The instruction was: cover this page with white things. So I did. (This is week 5 or 6 of the Wreck this Journal game, depending on who’s counting.)
White paper textures. White lettering. “SMILE” and white-on-color logos. White slippers. A newsprint map to White’s. The whites of an eye. Toilet paper roll – plush white. “A [...]
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Here’s the latest update in the ongoing saga of our Wreck this Journal game. (#WTJ)
Last Thursday afternoon: mailed book to self. Deep breaths.
Friday noon: BOOK IN MAILBOX! Stamps not cancelled, no postmark, in fact not a single new mark on it! Must have been hand carried with kid glove treatment.
I toss it on my [...]
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n which we embark upon a new stage of the journey, this week’s #WTJ post being installment three or four depending who is counting the progress of our multi-player game involving the book, Wreck this Journal.
Wherein, having duly swaddled the book in miles of strapping tape and applied a ragtag assortment of postage [...]
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Kitty and I blithely sloshed, dripped, and finally dumped coffee dregs on the book, driving the resident-home-for-the-summer-college-know-it-all to raise an eyebrow:
“That’s sure not something you see every day!”
Truth or Consequences/TMI?
I’ve been using the book as a handy coaster all week. One day I kind of missed and splashed doused the keyboard [...]
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There’s a newly published little book on creativity by Hugh MacLeod that I think you should read. Why? Try a sample of vintage Hugh from his CDF (Crazy Deranged Fools) newsletter, dated today. He starts out by addressing us as dear crazy deranged fools, and I love that. MacLeod (aka @gapingvoid) writes:
“Here’s the reality: The [...]
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