Merce Cardus's Blog, page 123
October 30, 2014
THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing and Better Living: The Creativity Myth
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Quote of the day
The creativity myth implies that few people can be creative, that any successful creator will experience dramatic flashes of insight, and that creating is more like magic than work.
~KEVIN ASHTON.
CREATIVITY
The creativity myth: creativity is not what we think it is (How to Fly a Horse
), Medium
WELL-BEING
Elizabeth Gilbert (The Signature of All Things
) reveals three signs you’re having a soul emergency, Huffington Post
FOOD
There’s a 30% chanc...
October 29, 2014
10 Commandments of How to Choose Yourself (For Believers and Non Believers)
You can either commune with James Altucher’s commandments or not, but one thing you have to admit: when reading his book Choose Yourself!(or his blog), one feels like getting the right stimuli, even I could say getting superhuman powers, to become a Superman or a Wonder Woman, ready to save the world.
No wonder why he has so many followers/readers on his blog. He instills the energy one needs to set fears aside and get to work, in other words, to Choose Yourself! Never a message can be deliver...
HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: What it Takes to Be a Writer
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Quote of the day
What it takes to be a writer?
For starters, develop these skills…
Observation, Panhandling, Imagination, Thick skin… and a little Joy.
~ELIZABETH BERG, writer.
AMAZON
Amazon’s new Family Library feature lets you share purchases as a household, The Verge
WRITING
What it takes to be a writer, Medium
ENTERTAINMENT
Romeo and Juliet
has no balcony, The Atlantic
HEALTH
How drinking soda is aging your body, Self
SUCCESS
The problem with positive thinking, NYT
BOO...
October 24, 2014
Hemingway Created a Reading List to a Young Writer
After reading a story by Ernest Hemingway in Cosmopolitan called ‘One Trip Across’ (a short story that became part ofTo Have and Have Not
), Arnold Samuelson, an adventurous 22-year-old, decided to travel 2,000 miles to meet Hemingway and ask him for advice.He hitched his way to Florida and then hopped a freight train from the mainland to Key West.
When I knocked on the front door of Ernest Hemingway’s house in Key West, he came out and stood squarely in front of me, squinty with annoyance, wai...
WEEKEND LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: How to Be a Success at Everything
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Quote of the day
Why do people quit diets or play the guitar for two sessions, put it down, and never pick it back up? Because there’s no penalty, there’s no cost. You don’t get fired from your job if you quit the guitar.
~TIM FERRIS.
BUSINESS
Free shipping is going to cost you more, WSJ
TECHNOLOGY
Inbox is a total reinvention of email from Google, The Verge
LEARNING
Can you really learn a skill in a week? (The 4-Hour Workweek
), FastCo
HAPPINESS
How to gla...
October 23, 2014
The Odds Against a Writer’s Achieving a Great Work of Art are Astronomical
John Gardner, an author and a creative writing teacher and also a professor of medieval literature,shows inOn Writers and Writinghis facet as an advocate for higher artistic and moral standards in fiction.
An invenctive against mere fiction
Writers work out in words their intuitions—their private certainties—of how things are. Good writers have right and significant intuitions, and they present their intuitions intact by means of masterful technique.
Great writers deal with problems which confro...
THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing and Better Living: Taking The Plunge
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Quote of the day
It’s easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all.
~SETH GODIN.
RISK TAKING
Taking the plunge, Seth’s Blog.
RELATIONSHIPS
3 ways your text messages change after you get married, Science of Us
MUSIC
The paradox of music-evoked sadness, NCBI
Pandora just launched a Chartbeat for music, Quartz
How Facebook is wrecking political news, The Kernel
AGING
What if...
October 22, 2014
How to Achieve Excellence Through The Art Of Learning
Josh Waitzkin became a public figure since winning his first National Chess Championship at the age of nine, and then he was catapulted into a media whirlwind as a teenager when his father’s bookSearching for Bobby Fischer
was made into a major motion picture.
The Art of Learningis not about the story of a prodigy, but about how to pursue excellence through a love for the process of learning (or also called deliberate practice).
To walk a thorny road, we may cover its every inch with leather or...
HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Public Wifi Is a Hazard
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Quote of the day
We took a hacker to a café and, in 20 minutes, he knew where everyone else was born, what schools they attended, and the last five things they googled.
~MAURITS MARTIJN.
PSYCHOLOGY
Does everything happen for a reason?, NYT
WELL-BEING
How do important relationship events impact our well-being?, Science of Relationships
AMAZON
Amazon Kindle Voyage
review, Wired
THE INTERNET
Maybe better if you don’t read this story on Public Wifi, Medium
HEALTH
The...
October 21, 2014
F. Scott Fitzgerald On How To Write Fiction
I fell in love
with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s writing when I first read the first lines of The Great Gatsby.
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
‘Whenever you feel critizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.
Although F. Scott Fitzgerald has been portrayed as a natural-born writer, he saw himself in a different light.What little I’ve acc...
