Here’s a perfect example of Thinking in Equations. We’re all pretty familiar with optical illusions. Take the image to the left, it looks like the lines are crooked…when they are in fact horizontal and parallel. Well just like you can have optical illusions for the eye, you can have sound illusions for the ear. Let’s…
Gastronomy The practice or art of choosing, cooking, and eating good food. If you want to be physically fit, it’s important what you feed your mouth. If you want to be fit creatively, you need to feed your eyes and ears the right stuff. That’s what visual gastronomy is all about–good food for your eyes.…
I love this ambient ad from Superette in New Zealand. The advertisers placed imprinting tablets on bus benches that impressed their “mark” on women’s legs. As you can imagine it probably annoyed the “wearers” of the ad, but you know it made an impact.
Some of my biggest inspiration comes from helping others with their creative projects. It seems counter-intuitive that giving your ideas and creativity to others gives you even more, but it works.
You’re a squirrel and inspiration is your acorn. Store it up. Don’t lose your inspiration. If you’re in a period of life filled with inspiration, you won’t know what I’m talking about. But if you’re feeling dried up, you get it. You long to be back in that energy of excitement and motivation. You wish…
I possess a superhuman ability. I bet you do too. I first noticed my powers when I found an old to-do list. I’m confident I only completed half the list. Yet not a single incomplete task haunted me. My superhuman ability allowed me to ignore these items and completely avoid negative consequences. I bet you’ve…
Yesterday I had absolutely no motivation. Today I’m ready to go! I’m not sure what it was that made the difference, but I’ll give you a rundown of the things I tried…maybe one of these remotivators will work for you!
As I write this I’m running on very little sleep. Just finished a week-long vacation where I drove from Corpus Christi, TX to Miami. 24 hours there, 24 hours back. On top of time changes, late nights in Miami, and travel fatigue, I’m trying to cut back on my unusually high caffeine levels.
Adults get guilted into reading stuff they don’t enjoy. They either have to read books for class or work…or it’s a “must read” that Oprah suggested. Either way we get suckered into boring books and we miss out on a great opportunity to be inspired. So what should you read?
Stumbled across a great site the other day. Great except for one major flaw. The words overlaid on the picture made it look like he had a bull ring in his nose. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t intending that…but it looked a little something like this: