Courage and Creating | The Creative Mind

***Personal Development Series: the Courage to Create***

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          We all need courage to be the creative forces in our small worlds. Today’s essay from the Creative Mind offers us reflections for a quiet October Sunday and the strength to keep on shaping the world as it should be not as it is. Enjoy the wonderful images from Buddha Doodles!

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The Creative Apothecary Celebrates Courage in All of Us!

To Be Insanely Creative, you Need to Find your FLOW

 ***Personal Development Series: Finding Your Flow***

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          We all need help in developing and sustaining creative momentum in our lives. Today’s essay by Ravi Shankar Rajan offers insight and ideas to help us recapture the creative flow that so enriches everything we do.

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Source: To Be Insanely Creative, you Need to Find your FLOW

 

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The Creative Apothecary Celebrates The Way of the Flow!

 

How to Leverage Your Mind to Create the Reality You Want

***Personal Development Series: The Imagination Is All***

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          Zat Rana, who has the blog “Design Luck” and writes for Medium as well, is one of the most thoughtful writers in a vastly over-crowded internet world. Today’s post is a thoughtful and relevant essay on the importance and power of the imagination in our lives. If you read only one essay this weekend, make it this one!

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Source: How to Leverage Your Mind to Create the Reality You Want

 

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The Creative Apothecary Celebrates the Power of the Imagination!

Learning Creative Learning

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Free Online Course on Creative Learning

From Lifelong Kindergarten and Mitch Resnick

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           The Lifelong Kindergarten project at MIT is one of the most important and Mitch Resnick, its director, understands the nature of creativity and creative learning more than any one else I know. His new book on creativity and learning is a must-read for everyone. This post provides information on the FREE online course he will be offering beginning in mid-October.

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The Creative Apothecary Celebrates Creative Learning!

 

The Greatest Risk You Can Take Is to Take No Risks at All

***Personal Development Series: Taking Risks***

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          The autumn of the year is as bit like spring, with the possibility of new beginnings after the summer. Today’s post from Zat Rana is a much-needed meditation on the absolute necessity for risk-taking by all of us.

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Source: The Greatest Risk You Can Take Is to Take No Risks at All

 

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The Creative Apothecary Encourages You to Take a Risk Today!

15 Best Brainstorming And Mind-Mapping Tech Tools For Every Creative Mind

***Personal Development Series: Ideas that Work***

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          I am not a great fan of brainstorming, but I am an enthusiastic and constant mapper of ideas, problems, projects. Today’s post from Lifehack offers an interesting array of possible tech tools to use in the mind mapping process. Does one or more of them suit you?

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The Creative Apothecary Celebrates the Power of Mind Mapping!

 

 

Hacking Creativity: How Play Is Crucial To Your Success

***Play Is Essential Series: Play & Creativity***

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          All human creativity and development emerge from the interactions among playing, making, and knowing. This is the fundamental principle behind my book in progress “Shaping Lives, Transforming Communities: Creative Expression in the Dance of Life” and its related resource guides. Today’s post from the Medium offers reflections and insight into this important truth.

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Source: Hacking Creativity: How Play Is Crucial To Your Success

 

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The Creative Apothecary Believes in the Essential Power of Play!

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An Accident, A Specialist in the Netherlands Creates an Adapted Mouthpiece, A Flautist Plays Again.

***The Arts in Health Series: Adapting Musical Instruments***

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             Everyone should be able to make music, not just be a listener. Adapting musical instruments so that people with different disabilities can play them is an important part of instrument design and making. Today’s post is the inspiring story of Leslie Thomas of Columbus, Ohio, who had a serious accident that prevented her from playing a normal flute.

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Source:  Turns out disabling injuries from a 2012 auto accident prevent Thompson from playing a conventionally shaped flute. A specialist in the Netherlands fashioned a $3,000 mouthpiece – called a “swan neck headjoint” – that enables Thompson to play.  | Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

 

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The Creative Apothecary Celebrates the Power of Music in Our Lives!

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What’s Wrong With Being A Jack Of All Trades? – Personal Growth – Medium

***Personal Development Series: Enter the Generalist***

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          For decades there has been too much emphasis on specialization, not enough on the “endless curiosity” needed for true success. To consider this as a necessary either/or is to misunderstand all the important contributions to civilization. If you would live a meaningful life, combining depth and breadth is the key. Today’s post offers a useful meditation for a quiet walk in the woods.

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Source: What’s Wrong With Being A Jack Of All Trades? – Personal Growth – Medium

 

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The Creative Apothecary Celebrates Those Who Are Endlessly Curious!

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5 Principles of Creativity | The Creativity Post

***Personal Development Series: Creativity***

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          The Creativity Post offers some useful guidelines for supporting our approaches to being creative in our lives and work. Think about and practice them.

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Source: 5 Principles of Creativity | The Creativity Post

 

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The Creative Apothecary Believes in the Possibilities in All of Us!

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