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Last week I wrote about writer’s block and a few hacks to try to get around it. Later that day, a Twitter pal, who specializes in UI design and information architecture, commented, “Did you know writer’s block happens even when you're doing documentation? It's true, I swear.”
Although I had never really thought about documentation specifically, well…of course. Blockages happen during every creative process.
Now here’s the rub…
Creativity infuses every single act we commit – from planning out your day in the morning to finding new ways of sneaking veggies into your child’s dinner at night.
Of course, on-the-job creativity pays us more than new and exciting ways to vacuum the carpet, so we tend to pay more attention to it. Besides, if we tried to be creative at everything, we’d probably burn out.
So, every day, people opt for selective creativity. We’ve learned that making a back and forth movement with our Hoover, while daydreaming about something else, gets the job done and the Creativity Police aren’t going to jump out of the closet and accuse us of not putting enough “blue sky thinking” into the chore.
So what am I babbling about?
Just as culture isn’t something that we buy a ticket to – it lives and breathes all around us – art and creativity aren’t limited to museums and galleries. It encircles us.
It shows up in how we approach our live and our work. No matter who we are or what we do.
We are all superheroes. We all have the Power of Imagination.
Need inspiration? Check out the photo below and see how something as geekerific as data centre cabling can become art at Pingdom.
Courtesy of Tim D.
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From Michael Wesch, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University
I just-just-just received this from David t Jones - a cartoon greeting from Cannes. (You can visit my 3 Questions for David t Jones here.)
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