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I’ve been feeling a bit uninspired lately, so naturally I took some time to wander around the wonderful worldwide web to get me out of this dip.
To my delight, I discovered Everything is a Remix by Kirby Ferguson. It’s split up into four parts, so it’ll take a little bit of time to get through it all, but it’s soooo worth it.
Growing up, my mother has always told me I was a doodler and writer. I didn’t believe her until she pulled out a giant box full of notebooks, sticky notes and scratch paper with squiggles, diagrams and random thoughts written down that spanned from my childhood and throughout my college years. Two thoughts ran through my head. 1) “Wow, my mom saved all this stuff?” and 2) “Wow, what was I thinking??”
Good to know that all that brainstorming and doodling was productive. =)
We all agree that creativity is highly valuable, but why is that we’re still resistant to creative ideas? The news site ScienceDaily explains some interesting findings.
Based on the experiments at the University of Pennsylvania:
The above quote is from the original Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. There’s something wonderfully magical about this line (and the movie itself). It doesn’t matter how old you are, watching this movie makes you feel like a kid and brings back all those free-spirited imaginations we used to have. I love it.