Consume / Create / Connect – What are your ratio between the 3?
If one is disproportionate, it is time to start working on the other two.
Tag: Creativity
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People can define themselves in many ways, be it the people they are with, places they have visited, things they have experienced, or in this case, things they have created. Looking at what has always attracted me in computers, the latter is the way I would like to define myself the most. In that way, computers are the ultimate creativity…
TED| Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity
TED| Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously
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Lifehacker has a whole featured category about fighting procrastination.
First steps:
- Visualize how you spend your time with time tracking or a log
- Focus on what you actually do first, and not on open ended vague to-do lists
- Make room for both productive work and guilt-free play
- Work in short bursts
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A fantastic glimpse into the balancing act of the left and right hemispheres of the brain, and why you should learn to visit your right side more often.
This could explain that feeling of peace and fulfillment I get when I finally find time to work on something creative, as well as the feeling of loss and frustration when I am dragged away from it by interruptions from my surroundings.
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About evolution, civilization and our (already half-way) story …
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Another brilliant talk about the reclaiming of culture by a democratization of content providers and how absurd copyright laws have become. A powerful call for a reform (not a replacement) of laws that criminalize anyone who participates into the digital culture.
TED | Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? A wonderful demonstration of the impact of education on creativity and the urgent need to rethink an educational model that was created for another era. Don’t let yourself be ‘educated out of creativity’. Find what you love and do it well. Ideas echoed in the famous graduation speech by Steve Jobs at…
TED | The rise of the amateur professional
Charles Leadbeater: The rise of the amateur professional A couple of years ago, I read an article in Wired talking about this wonderful, almost secretive conference around topics such as Technology or Education. At the time, I couldn’t find more details about the conference, so I forgot about it… until I came across some videos on YouTube referencing TED talks.…