A Creativity Quotation for the Weekend

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“When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.”
~ Osho, from Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within

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Ethics and Creativity

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I’ve spent three days studying how to work with texts and re-structuring them. It has been a fascinating class with my brain has hit overload. During the course, the question of ethics in working on someone else’s manuscript came up.
What do you think? Is creativity hampered by ethics?

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It’s a Messy, Creative World

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There is a lot of cool information in the latest issue of The New Yorker, but there is a classic line about creativity from Malcolm Gladwell’s article (May 16, 2011 issue)!
From the article (and referring to psychologist Dean Simonton) “Simonton’s point is that there is nothing neat and [...]

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