Travel and creativity

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How to combine travel and creativity Travel and creativity make good partners, but often in surprising ways. We previously looked at how to use small trips, neighborhood jaunts really, to hunt for materials for two types of creative projects. One was making small sculptures. The other was making bottle openers. The intent was to help you come up with your own approach to combining travel and creativity by…

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Make something from your trip: Part 1

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Combine travel and creativity to make something from your trip Travel and creativity make such a powerful team, they should have their own Netflix series. Travel helps you pay better attention, gets you out of ruts and generates ideas you’d never consider at home. But at this time when we can’t travel, does that mean that your creativity has to suffer as well, locked down and quarantined? Not…

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Find what you love

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Use your trip to find what you love Trips provide intriguing opportunities to find what you love. And for me, the best moments on a trip β€” those powerful, defining, magic moments β€” are ones so filled with meaning and emotion that I wish to linger long and absorb them. And yet, I never quite can, for I must inevitably move on. That leaves me with a poignant…

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Boredom, creativity and the addiction of distraction

Boredom may not be as boring as you think Of the three things you most avoid that may be what you most need β€” suffering, failure and boredom β€” the latter seems like the most innocuous. Suffering and failure might feel more like an open wound or severed limb. In comparison, boredom’s more like a hangnail: not pleasant, but more of an annoyance you’d prefer would go away.…

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