by Sarah Jane Vickery | Oct 3, 2017 | Get Creative, Popular Posts
I think I need to try this as a sleep aid – reading my favourite kid’s book at bedtime. I slept great when I was young so hey, why not!? My mum should get a laugh out of this one; I think she read Curious George to me every night for about two years straight. I...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Sep 10, 2017 | Get Creative
This was a quote that Ryan Holiday attributed to Scott Adams. I heard this when he was on the Tim Ferriss show. They were discussing the implications of censorship and saying that it is our own desire not to offend, that really drives censorship. They were stressing...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Sep 2, 2017 | Get Creative
This was a really interesting conversation with Dan Harris and Sam Harris. Sam was talking about how boredom is really just an inability to focus on something. Focused attention is never boring. They related it to meditation – when you mediate, even something as...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Aug 7, 2017 | Cartoon Club, Get Creative
I got this great visual when reading Sheryl Sanderberg’s book Option B. She suffered the loss of her husband and at one point she talked about the fact that she could never run away from her daemons so she might as well accept them. She said that while she couldn’t...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Aug 6, 2017 | Cartoon Club, Get Creative
Kevin Kelly was being interviewed by Tim Ferriss and he said that he had set a countdown clock on his computer that estimated the days until he would die. He said it helped him to stay focused on his purpose. It made me think wouldn’t it be funny ..ok bad word.....
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jul 22, 2017 | Get Creative
I was listening to episode #940 of the Joe Rogan show and he said something that struck me, “We need news not delivered by people” when he was talking about how biased the news can be. At first I pictured a robot reporter then I thought of drones flying around...
