February, 2009

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Lateral Activity

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Photo by Canon in 2D. OK it's time to spread the link love with another roundup of Lateral Activity elsewhere on the web. If you're wondering how Armageddon the current economic crisis is likely to impact on the creative economy, you could do a lot worse than pour yourself a cup of coffee and peruse Richard Florida's article How the Crash Will Reshape America.

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The Shakespearean Guide to Entrepreneurship

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Photo by JustABoy. Everyone knows Shakespeare is the greatest writer in the English language. But did you know he was also a highly successful entrepreneur? Like Dick Whittington, the young Shakespeare left his rural home town to seek his fortune in London. In common with many entrepreneurs, he didn't have the benefit of a family fortune or a university education - just his talent, ambition and an enormous capacity for hard work.

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Daily Routines of Famous Creative People

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Photo by a.drian I discovered a fantastic blog at the weekend — Daily Routines: How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days (via Undead Pixel). It contains what it says on the tin: first-hand accounts of how famous people optimise their daily routines for creative work. For example, here’s Haruki Murakami‘s typical working […].

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Does Creativity Make You Happy?

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One of my favourite writers on creativity is the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. In this video of his TED talk , he explains the concept of flow for which he is famous. Flow is his answer to the question 'What makes human beings happy?' - 'An almost automatic, effortless, yet highly focused state of consciousness' that we can experience when devoting ourselves to a meaningful challenge.

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The Ultimate Guide to Marketing Your Training Program

Learning how to promote your training courses online is key to growing your training business. In this Ultimate Guide to Marketing we cover effective and modern marketing strategies that will help you market your training program, and sell more courses. You’ll learn how to: Harness the power of SEO to drive website traffic Convert more website visitors to sales Create smart email marketing campaigns Get the most out of course marketplaces Establish a referral program And more… Get ready to see y

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Don’t Assume You’re Normal: What You Can Learn from Other Creative Cultures

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Photo by fdecomite. In his book The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria argues that there have been 'three tectonic power shifts over the last five hundred years'. Each of these shifts profoundly reshaped culture and economy on a global scale. According to Zakaria the first shift was the rise of the Western World, starting in the fifteenth century. The second was the rise of the United States as an industrial world power.

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How RSI Made Me More Productive

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Photo by star5112. What's the worst thing that could happen to a writer? If you're a writer, I'm guessing you'd put 'not being able to write' pretty high on your list of potential disasters. Logically, there are plenty of far worse fates, but emotionally this one looms pretty large - especially if your living depends on your writing. Last year, that's exactly what happened to me.

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Don’t Try to Be Original

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She was beautiful. I couldn't believe my luck. She took my hand on the dance floor and smiled an ultraviolet smile. The pounding dance beat morphed into the beating of my heart as we found ourselves standing outside my flat. I fumbled with the keys. Somehow I got the door open. Taking her hand, I led her inside. There was something strange about the flat - but what could it be?

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How Does Twitter Affect Your Creativity?

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About the Author : Mark McGuinness is a poet, creative coach and co-founder of Lateral Action. Subscribe today to get free updates by email or RSS. The post How Does Twitter Affect Your Creativity? appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.