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How to harness your emotions to fuel creativity via Fast Company
Creativity is full of emotions—the reputational risk of not knowing how an idea will be received by stakeholders, the frustration of dealing with constraints and obstacles, conflict about directions to take, and elation when you finally develop a product. Successful creativity does not depend on the kinds of emotions experienced. Rather, it depends on your ability to harness the power of emotions and manage them when they get in the way of progress. In my book, The Creativity Choice: The Science of Making Decisions To Turn Ideas Into Action, I write about how to use emotional intelligence to manage the creative process, regardless of industry or job role.
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What I’m reading: The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
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The Notebook is a deep dive into the history and usefulness of notebooks over the centuries. The author takes a journey from the days of parliament, vellum, and finally into the world where cheap paper opened up the usefulness of notebooks to nearly everyone. He has us meet Leonardo da Vinci, whose notebooks are famous to this day, or Aminto Manucci and Luca Piacioli, the creators and philosophers of double-entry bookkeeping, who changed life in many ways beyond that. He discusses authors, thinkers, scientists, and artists, and what the notebook meant/means to them.
Most of us are familiar with notebooks and notetaking — usually from our school days or perhaps our college classes. For the most part, we understood the importance of taking notes as an aide memoir for the papers we needed to write and those dreaded exams of the end of the year. How could we possibly remember everything we needed at this time of our life where our brains were being stuffed with new information?
I find my own use of notes and notebooks continuing to the current day. Early on in my career as a technologist, taking notes was an important, if not critical, part of any job. In days before the Internet and the host of information at our fingertips, notebooks were how I retained all the information I gathered during my reading and my workday. If I developed a solution one day, I would likely need to refer to that solution weeks, months or years into the future. Without a notebook, I would’ve been lost. There was no Google Search, sub-Reddits, or ChatGPT. My peers and I, had to create our own, day by day, year by year.
Even now, with all the technological tools that our fingertips, I still find myself keeping a notebook sometimes it might contain random thoughts, like diary, entries, or quick notes about a particular topic like events that I used to run columns I used to write and information about my many clients and their computers.
I found that using a paper notebook could be one of the most useful ways to establish your credibility in front of a client or in a meeting. There is something about opening your notebook, placing it in front of you, and starting to take notes, clients, peers, and bosses seem to sense as an important marker that I am getting down to business and I am taking it all seriously. Even knowing its usefulness, I am amazed at what an outsized effect it has on how people perceive you and your work.
Now that my days have slowed down with fewer clients and less work, I still find myself still maintaining a notebook, if not several. They usually contain thoughts on life and upcoming events with occasional notes that I’ll find useful in the yearly events which mark out our lives.
Even as a lover of technology and someone surrounded by it, I don’t have the same affinity for Digital notetaking that I have for the pleasure of writing with Pen and ink on a nice sheet of paper. Sometimes it is simply easier to open up my notebook and jot down a thought or a piece of information rather than take the time to pull out my phone and jot it into Notes or another application, even the short delay of firing up the app rankles me and sends me back to my notebook with a shrug.
If you are not already writing in your notebook regularly, The Notebook might just send you out to find your favorite notebook, pen, or pencil and start your journey through your thoughts and memories.
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If you are useful, it doesn’t mean you are valued via Better Than Random
As you progress in your career, understanding the difference between being useful and being valued is very important. At first glance, they might look similar because the signals you get are more or less the same: a promotion, a higher than expected bonus, a special stock award. This is why it’s important to dig deeper and try to detect subtler signals.
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I have seen this lack of accountability in real life many times. It allows any one employee to disavow responsibility for any action. “It is corporate policy. I can’t connect you with anyone else who can help you.” Even worse is the individual who performs heinous acts that they would decry being done to them because “It’s not me who is causing the issues. It is the amorphous ‘company’ that is doing it.” Corporations weaponize this inability to empathize in their workforce and “plausible deniability” to treat their customers with contempt. – Douglas
Accountability sinks via A Working Library
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In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb or obscure the consequences of a decision such that no one can be held directly accountable for it. Here’s an example: a higher up at a hospitality company decides to reduce the size of its cleaning staff, because it improves the numbers on a balance sheet somewhere. Later, you are trying to check into a room, but it’s not ready and the clerk can’t tell you when it will be; they can offer a voucher, but what you need is a room. There’s no one to call to complain, no way to communicate back to that distant leader that they’ve scotched your plans. The accountability is swallowed up into a void, lost forever.
Davies proposes that:
For an accountability sink to function, it has to break a link; it has to prevent the feedback of the person affected by the decision from affecting the operation of the system.
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Repair and Remain: How to do the slow, hard, good work of staying put by Kurt Armstrong
Let’s say time comes to gut and renovate your bathroom: I can help you with that—demolition, framing, reworking the plumbing, moving some electrical, installing some mould-resistant drywall, maybe some nice tile for the floor and some classic glazed ceramic three-by-six subway tile for the tub surround. Should take a month or two, depending on what all’s involved. And as for you, hey, for the sake of your wife and kids, I think you better quit the flurry of furtive late-night texts to the sexy young co-worker and cut back a bit on your recreational drinking because wine is a mocker, so goes the proverb, as if those Facebook posts of you at the bar last week weren’t proof enough.
Repair and remain. Work with what you’ve got. Sit still for a moment, take stock, make some changes. Big changes, if necessary.
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The 4 Types of Luck by Sahil Bloom
The 4 Types of Luck
In 1978, a neurologist named Dr. James Austin published a book entitled Chase, Chance, & Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty.
In it, Dr. Austin proposed that there are four types of luck:
Blind Luck
Luck from Motion
Luck from Awareness
Luck from Uniqueness
Here’s how to think about each type:
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Start with the Jar: How to understand your capacity via Turtle’s Pace
Optimism is dangerous, especially when it comes to planning our goals. If we underestimate the effort of an endeavor, we set ourselves up for failure. When we fail to meet our expectations, we can succumb to cynicism.
We must learn how much we can process to avoid the hope trap.
Domain, Duration, and Dimension
Imagine you have thousands of marbles to carry on a plane, and airport security released a new regulation that limits an individual to one jarful. If you don’t know the jar’s capacity, you won’t know how many marbles you can bring and could risk losing your precious orbs!
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How To Be More Intelligent 101 via Nicholas Bate
Read staggering amounts, regularly returning to the classics both fiction and non-fiction.
Write your own notes of your daily learnings aiming for super concise summaries. In that way you must squeeze and reveal the essence of a subject.
Stay active during the day. That’s not just ‘go to the gym’. Stay active; you’ll notice the ideas flowing so much more quickly and easily.
Plus 100 more!
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
Full text of book is available in several formats on the web page.
In the spring of 2013, I unwittingly set off a very minor international sensation.
It all began when I was asked to write an essay for a new radical magazine called Strike! The editor asked if I had anything provocative that no one else would be likely to publish. I usually have one or two essay ideas like that stewing around, so I drafted one up and presented him with a brief piece entitled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.”
The essay was based on a hunch. Everyone is familiar with those sort of jobs that don’t seem, to the outsider, to really do much of anything: HR consultants, communications coordinators, PR researchers, financial strategists, corporate lawyers, or the sort of people (very familiar in academic contexts) who spend their time staffing committees that discuss the problem of unnecessary committees. The list was seemingly endless. What, I wondered, if these jobs really are useless, and those who hold them are aware of it? Certainly you meet people now and then who seem to feel their jobs are pointless and unnecessary. Could there be anything more demoralizing than having to wake up in the morning five out of seven days of one’s adult life to perform a task that one secretly believed did not need to be performed—that was simply a waste of time or resources, or that even made the world worse? Would this not be a terrible psychic wound running across our society? Yet if so, it was one that no one ever seemed to talk about. There were plenty of surveys over whether people were happy at work. There were none, as far as I knew, about whether or not they felt their jobs had any good reason to exist.
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A concept for life in genreal, not just coding. – Douglas
The Art of Finishing via Bytedrum
“It’s a quiet Saturday afternoon. I’ve carved out a few precious hours for coding, armed with a steaming cup of coffee and the familiar urge to dive into a project. As I settle into my chair and open my terminal, I’m confronted with a challenge that’s become all too familiar: deciding which of my many unfinished projects to tackle.
I navigate to my project directory, greeted by a graveyard of half-implemented ideas and stalled works-in-progress. Each one represents a different problem I’ve tried to solve, a different technology I’ve attempted to master. They’re all interesting, each with its own purpose and potential. But as I scan through them, I can already feel my enthusiasm waning. I know that whichever one I choose, I’ll be facing not just the original problem, but a hydra of new challenges that have sprouted since I last looked at the code.”
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Be A Thermostat, Not A Thermometer via Lara Hogan [Shared]
As I’ve learned more about how humans interact with one another at work, I’ve been repeatedly reminded that we are very easily influenced by the mood of those around us. It’s usually not even something we do consciously; we just see someone using a different tone of voice or shifting their body language, and something deep in our brain notices it.
If you’ve ever attended a meeting where there were some “weird vibes,” you know what I’m talking about. You couldn’t quite put your finger on it, but something about the energy of the room was off—and that feeling affected you, even if it was super subtle.
We’re wired to spidey sense this stuff; this gut instinct is part of what’s helped us stay safe for millenia. Our amygdalas are constantly on the lookout for threats in our environment that could be bad news. Plus, we tend to infer meaning from those weird vibes. Our brain is trying to make sense of the shift in behavior, so we’ll make some (often subconscious) guesses about what’s truly going on. We often even jump to the assumption that those vibes are about us.
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Always Be ShippingHave you made anything lately?
Have you published anything? Shipped anything? Finished something and put it into the world? Your answer will lie somewhere on the spectrum between ‘Yes – today!’ and, ‘No. Never.’
Your answer is important.
Tell me how often you ship, publish, or show the world what you’re doing and I’ll tell you where you’ll be in five years. In short: you’ll be doing incredibly well and far, far better than the person who said, ‘No. Never.’
If you are someone who is in the business of creating anything – whether it’s code, books, photographs, videos, lessons, physical products – the importance of regularly shipping what you make cannot be emphasised enough.
It is vital.
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Employees Are Sick of Being Asked to Make Moral Compromises via Harvard Business Review
Summary.
Moral injury is experienced as a trauma response to witnessing or participating in workplace behaviors that contradict one’s moral beliefs in high-stakes situations and that have the potential of harming others physically, psychologically, socially, or economically, and it could prompt people to leave a company. It was first studied in veterans who’d witnessed atrocities of war. More recently, this research has been extended to health care, education, social work, and other high-pressure and often under-resourced occupations. The past two years have made it increasingly clear that moral injury can occur in many contexts and populations, including the workplace. As a new world of work unfolds before us and the pact between employee and employer gets rewritten, leaders have to learn and evolve to keep pace. The authors present six things leaders can do to ensure their actions aren’t unintentionally injuring the moral center of those they lead.
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Today, so many of us are wishing to safeguard ourselves — and our careers — against uncertainty. But how do we do this in a world where the waves of change keep coming and it can take all our energy just to stay afloat?
By thinking long term, says Dorie Clark, consultant and keynote speaker. “Long-term thinking protects us during downturns (of all kinds), because it keeps us moving toward our most important goals … It’s the surest path to meaningful and lasting success in a world that so often prioritizes what’s easy, quick, and ultimately shallow,” writes Clark in her new book The Long Game.
If we want to play the long game, one of the first things we must do is identify those goals so we’re able to make the adjustments needed in our lives to move towards achieving them. In this excerpt, she shares some strategies to assist people in pinpointing their goals.
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Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work – The Marginalian
“A great interview does something else, too. A great touches the nucleus of being and potential, untouched by the forces of time and change.
One January afternoon several selves ago, I entered the corrugated black walls of a snug recording studio at the School of Visual Arts to sit at a microphone across from a woman dressed entirely and impeccably in black — a woman all stranger, all sunshine. I didn’t expect that, over the next hour, the warmth of her generous curiosity and her sensitive attention would melt away my ordinary reticence about discussing the life beneath the work. I didn’t expect that, over the next decade, we would become creative kindred spirits, then friends, then longtime romantic partners, and finally dear lifelong friends and frequent collaborators.”
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Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People by Debbie Millman
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Overwhelm: The Survival Guide by Leo Babauta
Feeling overwhelmed with work and personal tasks is one of the biggest problems that the people I work with are facing.
It turns out, our lives can be pretty overwhelming.
There’s so much to do, never enough time to do it, and who knows what we should be focusing on? We’re always behind, barely treading water. That’s our usual experience of life, it seems.
What can we do? It turns out, there are some powerful things we can practice with overwhelm, and there are some practical things we can do as well.
What follows is meant to be a kind of survival guide – not only how to survive your overwhelming life, but how to turn it into a life of joy and impact.
There are a lot of things below, which ironically can be overwhelming. Pick one, and try it.
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Staying productive during COVID-19
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Transition as the New Normal with Douglas E. Welch at Tuesdays with Transitioners
Douglas E. Welch presents to Tuesdays with Transitioners in Northridge, California on “Transition as the New Normal” on July 14 2014.
While we all might like to think that transition is a short term process, it is not a fleeting process we fall into and out of. Rather, life is truly nothing but one long transition — a state of constant flux. We might have dreams and desires for stability, but in a world that is constantly changing, stability is only an illusion and a temporary one at that.
Transition is the New Normal. It is a constant part of our lives and careers and if we understand that, we can use it to our advantage.
When you first realize that you are always in transition, it can seem a bit frightening. It can feel like you are the mercy of the time and tides, being buffeted about without any ability to control what is happening around you. You do have some control, but it requires that you pay deep attention to your life, your thoughts, and your actions. Yes, if you let the world push you around, it will gladly (and easily) do so. If you, instead, take your life directly into your own hands, you can ride the waves of change and transition in ways that best benefit you.
Douglas is writer and host of Career Opportunities, a long running column and podcast dedicated to “Helping to Build the Career You Deserve!” Career Opportunities began in 1997 as a magazine column and expanded to a podcast in 2004. Douglas is also a New Media Consultant, Technology and Career Consultant with over 30 years experience in high-tech. You can find all of Douglas’ work at DouglasEWelch.com.
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Douglas E. Welch presents “Transition as the New Normal” to OPEN (Outstanding Professionals Employment Network) Ventura County in Simi Valley, CA on February 27 2015.
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Also mentioned in this talk is “Career Compass: Finding Your Career North”, an Amazon Kindle booklet
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