Who would have guessed this ? Even when you are at your most tired and fatigued, those creative juices are flowing. Indeed, they may be more powerful. And, listen to this: your fatigued brain isn’t very good at filtering out weird ideas, something that can lead to creative insights.
All of this is the result of a podcast from Harvard Business Review with Ron Friedman, author of The Best Place to Work, on the latest episode of “HBR Ideacast.”
This will be particularly interesting to my many creative friends who are also night owls. I am a morning person and I do a lot of my work very early in the morning, sometimes even prior to my ritual morning run. I am not good doing much when I am fatigued, but I am intrigued by the concept, especially that part about the tired brain not eliminating weird ideas.
Let’s give our tired brains a workout!
For more:
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/03/sometimes-tired-people-are-creative-people.html?mid=twitter_nymag
Hear me sing and help the SND Foundation
While I am keeping my day job, I had fun doing this musical video to help the SND Foundation in its efforts to help aspiring visual journalists so that they will have access to training programs, scholarships and other support.
Tune in and hear my rendition of Cuban Pete, a song made popular in the 1950s by Desi Arnaz in his role as Ricky Ricardo in the iconic sitcom, I Love Lucy.
The Society for News Design Foundation, created in 1992, is the nonprofit education and research effort of SND. With support from donations and matching grants, the Foundation provides training grants for visual journalists, university-level scholarships, travel grants for students to the Annual Workshop & Exhibition, grants to the student designers of the year, and outreach to minority journalists and journalism students at universities with diverse enrollments. The Foundation also provides research grants for projects on the future of journalism developed in partnership with other journalism organizations.
Please make your contribution today here. No amount is too small. I am sending you a Babalu chant all the way to where you are, asking you to help a young visual journalist to get into the most wonderful profession of all.
Donate here:
http://www.snd.org/foundation/
Of related interest:
Raising funds for the SND Foundation
http://www.garciamedia.com/blog/raising_funds_for_the_snd_foundation
Let's hear it for the mambo
http://garciamedia.com/blog/lets_hear_it_for_the