Creativity
In a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog I look at the place craft has in our lives. It is called Art and Craft. My starting point is my father’s trade – he does repetition turning (making widgets out of metal). Like any craftsperson he does the same thing over and [...]
It’s been a great time in the part of the blogoshpere that I inhabit: lots of excellent posts. So here are some excellent posts that I have found from my travels in the blogosphere lately. First up a couple of posts from one of my new favourite bloggers, kaushik at beyond karma. First up is [...]
There are a couple of ideas that annoy me. The first is that we can do nothing. The second is that we can do everything. Both seem obviously nonsensical to me. The choices I make (eg whether to treat a friend well or badly) seem to make a big difference to the quality of my [...]
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It is often said that genius and creativity lie close together. I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog where I examine this idea. I think I know what the idea is but all the creative people I know are quite sane. I also talk about bringing creativity into our [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is called Creating and Receiving Ourselves. I wrote it to talk about the sense I have that there are parts of me that I don’t much choice about – I can choose to receive them or reject them, but that’s about [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is about creativity – when it is useful for us, when the routine is just fine and how it relates to change (if creativity means change, this doesn’t mean that all change is creative). I end with some ideas on how [...]
Much of our life is routine – and this is usually a good thing. We don’t want to chew our food much differently to how we did yesterday, we’re happy that the same path gets us to where we want to go – and we walk along it with much the same gait. If we [...]
I think there should be a collective noun for posts (a ‘swag of posts’ perhaps) but I don’t know what it is if there is one, so I’ve had to settle for “collection”. It’s been quite a long time since I’ve done a round-up of posts like this. These are spread over time and and [...]
