Reflective Resources
A different perspective on Overthinking - A suggested talk
Overthinking is an overflow of creativity - Alina Ali Rawji Overthinking isn’t all negative, there are positive qualities but it is...
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- Feb 21, 2022
- 1 min
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert Book suggestion
“It seems to me , that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes too” Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic ...
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- Jan 20, 2022
- 1 min
Kindred Spirits: Weaving, Creating, Beading, Connecting A TED Talk by Lubna Saif Abbas Dehrab
Kindred Spirits: Weaving, Creating, Beading, Connecting This inspiring talk looks at the importance of creativity in our lives generally...
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- Jan 6, 2022
- 1 min
Our own creative genius - Talk by Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat, Pray, Love) muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the...
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- Apr 27, 2021
- 1 min
Dare to say yes
"Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas." Nolan Bushnell "It takes courage to look at life in the eye and say yes to the...
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- Feb 22, 2021
- 1 min
Every man creates his personality
“Personality is, in fact, only a free being emphasizing and recognizing itself as such. Every man makes his own personality; he is to...
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- Jan 20, 2021
- 1 min
Repurposed art
Born in 1983 in the USA, Erika Iris Simmons is an artist who uses non-traditional or repurposed materials. Cassette tapes have been used...
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- Dec 30, 2020
- 1 min
Ice Sculpture
I thought that ice sculptures might be an appropriate post for the last one of 2020. Ice sculptures can be abstract or realistic and can...
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- Dec 16, 2020
- 1 min
Computer Art
As computer technology continues to develop and expand, the rate at which old computers and peripherals are discarded. Once discarded...
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- Dec 9, 2020
- 1 min
Wara Straw Art
Northern Japan is known for its wealth of rice paddies. After the rice is harvested each autumn and the grain extracted, a huge amount of...
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- Nov 30, 2020
- 2 min
Boredom and creativity
The wife in Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya (1897) complains: "I'm dying of Boredom. I don't know what to do." Of course, if Yelena lived...
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- Nov 18, 2020
- 1 min
Flip Flop Art
"That person can turn a garbage dump into wealth." —Kenyan proverb I have always had a bit of ‘make do and mend’ in me but since this...
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