by Orna Ross | Jan 3, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Towards A Creative New Year, Final Instalment. We're all trained to notice the gap. Between what we have and what we want, between where we are and where we hope we're going, between the person we are and who we'd like to be. That's where the new year's resolutions...
by Orna Ross | Dec 15, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I used to do long-distance running and whenever I hit a wall, I would think of Haruki Murakami quoting Guatama Buddha on the difference between inevitable and optional: ‘Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ‘Say you’re running and you start to think,...
by Orna Ross | Dec 2, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Giving is at the heart of the creative approach. You give something of yourself – sometimes for payment, often not. Sometimes knowing exactly why, often not. This blog post is my once-a-year callout, where you get the opportunity to intentionally give — by...
by Orna Ross | Nov 23, 2011 | Uncategorized |
“Being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves. The most productive ones get started early in the morning, when the world is quiet, the phones aren't ringing, and their...
by Orna Ross | Nov 21, 2011 | Uncategorized |
With the help of the good folk at PaperLi, I'm now curating The Creative Times. In this daily epublication, I aim to gather the very best writing and broadcasting about the very best creative work from around the English speaking world. Today's issue has: Bruce...
by Orna Ross | Nov 17, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In the early 1990s, three psychologists visited Universitat der Kunste, the esteemed arts academy in West Berlin, to study a cohort of elite violin students and see what made them so very good. As a control group, they selected students from the education department...