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
i really think this deserves its own submission.
So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative
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Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative
#62To be really creative, you need to stop reading Hacker News frantically and go out and explore nature, other people and your own thoughts.
Yes, but what framework should I use for that? ;)
You can just join billions of other players in the F2P Massively Multiplayer Offline game called "Outside". More info here: http://www.reddit.com/r/outside
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but what framework should I use for that? ;)
You can just join billions of other players in the F2P Massively Multiplayer Offline game called "Outside". More info here: http://www.reddit.com/r/outside
You are playing a dangerous game if you think it's F2P
Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative
#64I 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?
could just be a barebones install.
Arch + xmonad/i3/awesome/whatever no-desktop-compositor-included-DE looks like that out of the box.
Probably other distros, too, but Arch has no font hinting/aa defaults either so the problem is usually exacerbated as compared to something like debian or ubuntu.
Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can just join billions of other players in the F2P Massively Multiplayer Offline game called "Outside". More info here: http://www.reddit.com/r/outside
You are playing a dangerous game if you think it's F2P
Well, you can definitely pay to win, but most people have more time than money so we just grind for gear.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can just join billions of other players in the F2P Massively Multiplayer Offline game called "Outside". More info here: http://www.reddit.com/r/outside
You are playing a dangerous game if you think it's F2P
Tell me about it. I started that game a while back and at first I was having fun in the starting area right outside my house but soon I exhausted most of what there was to do there. I decided to try visiting one of the more populated areas but it seemed like the game was designed so that getting there without use of a vehicle would take a ridiculously long time. The game developers wanted me to pay cash for their "public transport" system which was crowded and not all that reliable so soon I was hooked and had spent a even more of my money on a vehicle of my own. As it turns out even that requires "fuel" and "maintenance".
Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative
#68feel emotions (sad, happy) and take the time to process them (boredom) to be creative?
Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative
#69To be really creative, you need to stop reading Hacker News frantically and go out and explore nature, other people and your own thoughts.
Actually I used to work as a rafting guide. Didn't earn a lot of money, but I had a lot of free time (in nature), and met a lot of people. I notice that I had way more ideas then than I do now that I have settled into a 9-6 lifestyle. Sometimes that creativity starts coming back when I am on holiday for a while. I think a "normal" office job / lifestyle is very stifling to creativity.
I counter your anecdotal with this anecdotal: Einstein and Bukowski were plenty creative while working in an office.
Re: So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative
#70Welcome 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.]
Does anyone else find it amusing that the business school professor wants everyone to be depressed?