What I see in different shades of gray, from behind my reading glasses
Want to change something in your life, but aren’t too sure how? Marc Lesser reminds us of a few ways that we can be creative, just as we were as kids:
Being more creative is a practice, a habit, and a process. A good way to begin is to notice how creative babies and young children are. Just the act of crawling, walking, and exploring can be enormously creative. Creativity is easy – just let yourself be more childlike, curious, open,
Scott Adams has a book coming, titled How to Fail Almost Every Time and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (why do books always seem to have the funny Camel Case sentences?), & is looking for “author blurbs”. Here’s a chance to get your name on the back cover of his book…
My publisher has agreed to print blurbs from you, my blog readers, knowing that none of you have read the actual book. What’s in it for you is that you might see your name on the back cover of the book.
Before you scoff at the audacity, listen (or read the transcript) to this interview that Ira Flatow of NPR had with Author Annalee Newitz, about her new book “Scatter, Adapt, & Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction“
Robert Fulghum has another interesting view at life, through the eyes of a rag-tag bunch of 13 year olds
You will always be caught somewhere in the middle between where you’ve been and where you’re going, between what you have and what you want. It’s called Now – and it isn’t a place, it’s a condition.
For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That’s been true since 1945. It’s now being finally recognized that there are more long-term processes like environmental destruction leading in the same direction, maybe not to total destruction, but at least to the destruction of the capacity for a decent existence.
HT to @dsearls watch this video of a conversation betwen a patron calling in to order a pizza. Not very far from the reality
With an increasing number of options in almost every aspect of life, we presume that our results in each of those areas should be getting better and better, because with each new possibility it becomes more likely that one of them suits us perfectly. Our expectations for perfection and total satisfaction are too high.