Coinciding Narratives
Coinciding Narratives
Coinciding Narratives
An online notebook where I explore creativity and many other topics.
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Reflections on the week I’m definitely noticing improvements from making my sleep schedule more regular. But I need to continue with this – in the past, I’ve found that I get the most benefit after a week or more of keeping to a fairly...
Reflections on the week This week was a bit of a rocky start to the experiment – I think I was trying to change too many things at once. I am just beginning to get my sleep schedule back on track, and this will be my focus for the...
Personality Type: An Owner’s Manual (by Lenore Thomson) and Personality Hacker (by Joel Mark Witt and Antonia Dodge) are two books that use the concept of “cognitive functions” to explain differences between personalities and the varying...
I’m beginning an experiment to try to increase my levels of mental energy. By “mental energy”, I mean being able to focus on challenging or creative tasks without quickly becoming mentally fatigued or susceptible to distraction. I often...
Keep Going is a short book written and illustrated by Austin Kleon. The subtitle is: “10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad”. Notes Kleon says he wrote the book because he needed to read a book answering the question of how to...
I’ve been reading about empathy over the past year or so, and a chapter from the book On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers caught my attention. The full chapter title is: “Dealing With Breakdowns in Communication – Interpersonal and...
Wired to Create, by Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire, is a book that identifies some characteristics and habits of highly creative people. Notes Introduction studies of creative people have found some apparently contradictory...
The Magic of Sleep Thinking is a book by Eric Maisel and Natalya Maisel. It gives practical advice for problem-solving during slow wave sleep and describes the experiences of some of the authors’ coaching clients. Notes The discussion of...
Notes on a chapter about the Default Mode Network and how it may influence creativity
Notes on a chapter from "The Psychology of Creative Writing"
Notes on a chapter about REM sleep and creativity
Reflections on week 3 of the Walking in this World course
Brief notes on a selection of peer-reviewed papers about possible methods for increasing the duration of slow-wave or REM sleep
Notes and reflections on a book about applying the principles of improvisational theatre to daily life
Notes on a book summarising cognitive research into creative incubation