Every Once In A While
I’ve been out there in the thick of it, working hard but never taking stock. If you keep playing without any time-outs, your game starts to slip.
99U • Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)
and the writer can go off and do something else. Maybe work on a different writing project, or paint and draw, or go out into the fields and gather wildflowers to press into a book. Or maybe just deal with life events that conveniently come up at the same time and need to be addressed. The rest break given to the writer is a blessing, not a problem
... See moreLauren Sapala • Writing on the Intuitive Side of the Brain
Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click i... See more
Maria Popova • 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
Recently, this quote from the musician and composer Brian Eno in Eric Tamm’s biography has been floating back into my mind:
“The difficulty in feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and these are very important times. It’s the equivalent of dream time, in your dail... See more
“The difficulty in feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and these are very important times. It’s the equivalent of dream time, in your dail... See more