The library nearest my house has a magazine swap pile. Bring your old magazines, if you want to. Take anything you like, whether you've brought any or not. What a treasure! I love digging through that pile, and I find some delightful items.
Most recent great discovery: a 2002 Harvard Business Review full of lots of good advice for artists.
It was written for business people to help make their companies more creative. That fits us very well, I think.
The issue pulls together short articles by some business innovators. The titles alone create a nice little creativity coda:
Make It The Norm--from a fellow at Procter & Gamble, who says creativity is "the everyday task of making nonobvious connections"
Put Aside Ego--try looking through someone else's eyes
Mix People Up--for the solo artists, we're the people in question, who need to try doing things differently
Don't Fear Failure--it's a necessary and useful part of the process
Abandon the Crowd--do your own thing
Fight Negativity--it takes strong conviction to stay on your own road
Ask "What If?"
Merge Patience and Passion
Experiment Like Crazy
Don't Innovate, Solve Problems.
The list is from a six year-old copy of a magazine, but the ideas are still pretty good.
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Friday, February 29, 2008
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