You can't get creative when you're drowning yourself in noise
Turn off your pc, stash your phone away & find a quiet place
You'll be much more creative
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Have you been in a rut lately?
Do you need that extra boost to unleash all your creative powers?
Do you know it's there, but your creativity just won't come out?
Then here's 10 ways to fix your problem
You can't get creative when you're drowning yourself in noise
Turn off your pc, stash your phone away & find a quiet place
You'll be much more creative
Sounds so simple, yet it's so important
Many have sleepless nights trying to have a creative breakthrough
When really they should go to bed early and let their creative breakthrough come to them in the morning
Go to places that inspire you
Maybe you are inspired by nature, maybe by art museums, maybe by busy streets
The right places will make you feel 10x more creative
Hang out with people that are creative & can inspire you
There's a reason why artists flock to paris & tech gurus flock to silicon valley
Iron sharpens iron, creatives sharpen creatives
Perfect mix of collaboration & competition
Know when you are most creative & go do your creative tasks then
Personally I am at my most creative during mornings or the hour before I go to bed. So I use that time for creativity
I don't try to be creative during my 3PM energy dip
Every great artist learned by copying other masters
When you're in a rut, go see what the competition has done & copy them
Strengthen your own creative voice by learning from the voices of giants
One of the main reasons why you don't feel creative, is because the problem you're facing is too big
Cut it up into smaller pieces & start solving those
You'll create creative momentum this way that allows you to tackle the big problems
If you want to produce better, you have to consume better
Stop watching reality shows and go read a book instead
Stop scrolling your instagram and go visit a museum
Physical food decides your health, mental food decides your creativity
Sometimes you'll get stuck & it's better to ask someone else to create something for you
Or to ask someone to give you orders on how to fix it
Creativity is looking at problems with new perspectives
These perspectives don't always have to be yours
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I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x
As someone\u2019s who\u2019s read the book, this review strikes me as tremendously unfair. It mostly faults Adler for not writing the book the reviewer wishes he had! https://t.co/pqpt5Ziivj
— Teresa M. Bejan (@tmbejan) January 12, 2021
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x
