There might be benefits to having a tidy desk but creativity is not one of them. Researchers at the University of Minnesota found that working at a clean desk may promote healthy eating, generosity, and conventionality, but messy deckers excel at creative […]
On Day 10 of the first draft of my book Productive Writer (which I announced I will finish in 10 days) frantically cutting out the stuff I had so painstakingly written just a few days before. Normally I would have agonized a […]
Tom Kuegler wrote the other day, “If writing an article feels like pulling teeth, then you need to change the topic.” Lately, I have been feeling that my writing is getting stale. That I am running out of fresh ideas. I love writing […]
We are so scared of being bored these days. I come from a time when there was no TV, no internet, and no smartphones. We had long summer vacations but nowhere to go. We hardly had any toys, very little reading material, […]
Most people, when they think of creativity, they think of art. They think of writing, music, painting, theatre, movies, dancing, and making sculptures. But creativity isn’t just limited to arts. One can be creative in any area of life — in science, […]
Our whole life is rush rush rush. We have become so accustomed to rushing that if we are not rushing to get somewhere or to do something, or to finish something that if we are not rushing, we feel we are not […]