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The Creative Foundation and Creativity Pyramid
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The ‘Fuck It’ budget
Creativity — like a financial budget — is messy. The fuck-it budget predicts some of that messiness and gives the privilege of acceptance.
How is improv like writing, and vice versa?
If you want to kill my creativity, sit me in a chair and ask me to write something that will be heavily critiqued.
Poetry vs neuroscience: a creativity smackdown
Just like video killed the radio star, science threatens to kill both the theologian and the poet. It doesn’t have to be that way, but scientists need to acknowledge we do lose something when we gain scientific knowledge.
Mathematical idioms, unspoken quantification and creativity
We quantify the creatively unquantifiable all the time without realizing it. A list of how we use language to put ourselves on the map.
Writing: Self-awareness vs rumination
Writing can improve your mental health, but the writing should elicit self-awareness (not rumination).
Perfectionism is death
Perfectionism is stagnation, fear and death. And nothing is a perfect 10 anyway.
The mathematics of joy
Start a list.
Write down 3-5 things that bring you joy.
Over the next week or two, continue to add things until you reach 100.
Ode to anger
… anger is further north of the more passive negative emotions for lots of us — sadness, hopelessness, despair, depression. If we’re angry, our brains are active.
Elongating time: why creativity needs procrastination and inefficiency
Next time someone asks if you’re bored or procrastinating, tell them you’re elongating time for more creativity.
Interoception’s influence on creativity, Pt II
Perhaps our internal self-awareness is more important to creativity than we realized.
Interoception’s influence on creativity, Pt I
Want to work on your creativity? Listen to your body through interoception.
Be willing to get squiggly
Creativity is messy, inelegant, tangential. But it’s precisely within this messiness where our creativity starts to take shape.
Procrastinating vs Freezing
Are you procrastinating on a creative project, or are you freezing? How to know the difference.
Procrastination vs marination
“Writing is hard; you just sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” When are you procrastinating, when are you marinating, and how can you know the difference?
Want to be creative? Lay down.
When I want to write, think or be creative, I know I have to do one thing: lay down. And it’s proven: laying down on your side boosts internal awareness and perception.
The amazing, connected brain
The future of creativity is connected to finding out more about the brain and how it makes connections.
