So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative • Hacker News Board

Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative

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Post by hownottowrite » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 11:12 AM UTC

Orbiting the Giant Hairball (1998) was a great guide to being creative in a world structured to squash creativity: http://www.amazon.com/Orbiting-Giant-Hairball-Corporate-Surv...

Hugh McLeod's How to Be Creative manifesto (2004) is also an amazing guide http://changethis.com/manifesto/6.HowToBeCreative/pdf/6.HowT... (you can buy it too http://www.amazon.com/Ignore-Everybody-Other-Keys-Creativity...)

Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative

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Post by FreezerburnV » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 11:18 AM UTC

Might I add yet another bit of input on how to be creative? John Cleese had a few words to say about being creative a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMpdPrm6Ul4

Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative

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Post by jblok » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 11:19 AM UTC

sidcool wrote: post #30

I put the same think in an image: It's funny how all are at the same page. http://i.imgur.com/C866csJ.png

It looks like you are using some horribly outdated OS/Browser. If I had to guess, I'd say IE7/8 on Windows XP. For reals?

Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative

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Post by pthomaid » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 11:21 AM UTC

dunehead wrote: post #10

And now there are four post about creativity.

Maybe three posts and a meta-post...

Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative

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Post by nz8877 » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 11:28 AM UTC

I think it's just manifestation of huge diversity among us. Once I started to appreciate the idea that we're not the same inside, I can see some very fascinating differences in the way we operate, think, see the world, etc.

Our brains are only superficially similar - isn't it as simple as that?

EDIT: fixed (hopefully) grammar mistakes.

Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative

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Post by dpacmittal » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 11:28 AM UTC

jblok wrote: post #33

sidcool wrote: post #30

I put the same think in an image: It's funny how all are at the same page. http://i.imgur.com/C866csJ.png

It looks like you are using some horribly outdated OS/Browser. If I had to guess, I'd say IE7/8 on Windows XP. For reals?

That font rendering, someone save my eyes.

Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative

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Post by _delirium » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 11:50 AM UTC

adwf wrote: post #25

Welcome to the social sciences, where the facts are made up and the points don't matter...

Fwiw, these are the disciplines involved in the three studies:

-- Sadness/creativity link: a business school professor

-- Boredom/creativity link: several psychologists

-- Happiness/creativity link: several psychologists, a physician, and a neuroscientist

[We can also add "journalist" as another layer in there.]

Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative

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Post by jon-wood » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 11:53 AM UTC

andreiursan wrote: post #21

to add to the list: to be more creative a broken sleep might help. Why Broken Sleep Is a Golden Time for Creativity [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8574616

As the parent of an eleven month old baby I'm going to dispute that a lack of sleep does anything but make you reliant on caffeine, and useless at doing anything that requires actual thought.

Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative

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Post by fenomas » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 12:01 PM UTC

analogmind wrote: post #5

To be really creative, you need to stop reading Hacker News frantically and go out and explore nature, other people and your own thoughts.

Ah, the fabled Outernet. I've heard a lot about it.

Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative

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Post by cinitriqs » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 12:01 PM UTC

dpacmittal wrote: post #36

jblok wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like you are using some horribly outdated OS/Browser. If I had to guess, I'd say IE7/8 on Windows XP. For reals?

That font rendering, someone save my eyes.

Perhaps... it's just a very low res screenshot... (or was that your joke anyway? ;) )