Creating New Realities

Just watched a lovely talk by David Levy called “No Time to Think“. It captures quite a lot of what we covered in our sessions, but does in a much more scholarly way than I did. He highlights how intellect has two aspects – one that is about searching, abstracting, refining and concluding (the stuff we are generally taught to be good at) – the other is about thinking, reflection, assimilation and contemplation – and that both are important, and that the second scholarly aspect is not given equal weighting. It is worth checking out the video if you have time ;>

Hi all,

Ive been listening to the audio sessions and sat down this morning to think about what’s going on in my life, my values and other things that I think about. After seeing the post secret blog I thought I’d do something similar only instead of secrets I thought I would share some images of my life and how they relate to me.

Thanks

There is an interesting centre that has been set up at the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford University called the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. Their work is “to realise the potential of mindfulness-based approaches in mental and physical health”. The techniques taught are similar to some of the ones we covered in our sessions. Check out www.oxfordmindfulness.org if you are interested.

I thought I’d add this link which, much like my last post, feels only loosly related to creativity in product design (although on the subject of values it’s very strong) . This site is something I come back to time and time again because it’s just so darned interesting. PostSecret , in itself a creative project, marrying web technology and the postal system, is based on the idea that people send in their secrets on the back of a postcard, and the most interesting are posted every Sunday. In addition to being a cracking idea, it is also a great showcase of the creativity of those who post in secrets, and the struggles or enjoyment they find between life and their values.

And if that’s not enough, there is at least one every week which will make you wet yourself laughing…