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A Celebration of The Stop Doing List.

A Celebration of The Stop Doing List.   

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Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time

Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time – review | Books | The Guardian In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that within a century, we would work only 15 hours a week. Just over...

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How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book”

  How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book” 

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10 Surprising Ways to Transform Your Creative Thinking

10 Surprising Ways to Transform Your Creative Thinking 

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This column will change your life: stop being busy by Oliver Burkeman in The...

In her recent book Overwhelmed, about the modern epidemic of busyness, Brigid Schulte describes her testy encounters with John Robinson, an academic who insists we have oodles of leisure time, really,...

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Want to Try Mindfulness? Begin with the Breath

  “My breath is boring—just the same thing over and over again. Surely there must be something more interesting to watch?” This kind of comment comes up quite often when people start mindfulness...

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Cultivating Authenticity — Letting Go of What People Think, by Brené Brown...

From The Gifts of Imperfection Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier.  The...

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37 Books Every Creative Person Should Be Reading

  “Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose...

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Discovering William Stafford

  Discovering William Stafford » TV » OPB.

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Carrie Fountain, interviewed in New Orleans Review

A 2009 winner of the National Poetry Series, Carrie Fountain’s Burn Lake weaves together several narrative strains: the young speaker’s internal life and interactions with others, a New Mexican city...

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Ted Hughes on the Universal Inner Child, in a Moving Letter to His Son via...

Ted Hughes on the Universal Inner Child, in a Moving Letter to His Son via Brain Pickings. When I came to Lake Victoria, it was quite obvious to me that in some of the most important ways you are much...

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The Perils of Plans: Why Creativity Requires Leaping into the Unknown Via...

The Perils of Plans: Why Creativity Requires Leaping into the Unknown Via Brain Pickings When writers who are just starting out ask me when it gets easier, my answer is never. It never gets easier. I...

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August Kleinzahler at the Griffin Prize 2004

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Two stunning poems by Carrie Fountain

          Two stunning poems by Carrie Fountain, from Better, issue four: Carrie Fountain Hottest Summer on Record for Susannah 00:00 / 01:49 I’m thinking about the night we should’ve died again:...

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Seth Godin in Conversation with Debbie Millman

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Mark Strand on the Heartbeat of Creative Work, via Brain Pickings

Pulitzer-Winning Poet Mark Strand on the Heartbeat of Creative Work and the Artist’s Task to Bear Witness to the Universe via Brain Pickings. We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a...

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How Creativity Works in the Brain

How Creativity Works in the Brain: Insights from a Santa Fe Institute Working Group, Cosponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts Free downloadable pdf:...

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Heidi Grant Halvorson: The Incredible Benefits of a “Get Better” Mindset

Heidi Grant Halvorson: The Incredible Benefits of a “Get Better” Mindset – 99u.

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Three Simple Practices That Can Help Boost Happiness at Work

Three Simple Practices That Can Help Boost Happiness at Work – Mindful.

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5 Timeless Books of Insight on Fear and the Creative Process, via Brain Pickings

Despite our best-argued cases for incremental innovation and creativity via hard work, the myth of the genius and the muse perseveres in how we think about great artists. And yet most art,...

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