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Category: Productivity
Stop Sugar-coating Creativity!
Sometimes the truth hurts. But knowing it still will set you free. The article below has a very businesslike tone, but don’t let that stop you from reading what is nothing less than the painful truth all creatives need to know:
by Milena Z. Fisher, Ph.D.
In response to a high demand for answers, the bunkum and balderdash of oversimplified creativity solutions are continuously shoved down a hungry market’s throat. The question remains: Is the current state of knowledge about creativity in a position to deliver meaningful, scientifically sound conclusions to what creativity is and how to foster it?
Kathryn Graham: ‘You’re No Hemingway’
by Kathryn Graham
When I was a freshman at Marist College, I was deeply insecure about my writing.
I didn’t trust the people I knew who said I had talent. Of course they did, I thought, they loved me. They were hopelessly biased (hi mom!), and even if they wanted to be objective, they never could be.
“Failure ain’t nuthin’ but success misspelled.”
Successful people don’t give up when they fail at something. They use the lessons they’ve learned from this bump in the road and roll right ahead. Really, they do. We read it somewhere on the interwebs. And you’re going to read more right here:
5 Times I Failed and What I Learned
from This Yuppie Life
Last Saturday, I attended my final goal-group meeting of the year. This is the meeting where we are asked to stand up in front of the group and state what our biggest challenges and our biggest achievements were this year: Insert panic here! When I looked back at the goals I’d set last January, I couldn’t check many off the list. I wondered if perhaps I’d set the wrong goals—or maybe I hadn’t tried hard enough? Or could it be that I just simply suck? Have you ever had a year like that?
If I had to sum up 2017 in one word, it would be challenging. My husband left his very good job at a prominent company last August to launch his indie virtual-reality game; what set out to be a six-month project has turned into fourteen months of the unknown—and I’m sorry to admit that I don’t handle the unknown very well. Funny that I chose to be an entrepreneur!
Steven Spielberg Gives Us Some Advice
And now a few words from Steven Spielberg on filmmaking, success, directing, success, writing, success, living an authentic life, and, hmm, what’ve we left out? Oh, right – success.
Anyway: