by Orna Ross | Sep 16, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The discovery in 2007 of a “bottleneck in the brain” showed that multitasking is not productive. Doing even just two tasks, both very simple, involves negotiating three bottlenecks in the brain. Deciding which we want to give our primary attention to. The...
by Orna Ross | Sep 13, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The key to creative success is excess, suggests Anais Nin, because creation comes from overflow. “You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. “… Creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to...
by Orna Ross | Sep 10, 2012 | Uncategorized |
When you set out to create something, the conventional, conditioned part of you sets off fear alarms, in the form of resistance and self-sabotage. Stephen Pressfield's book Turning Pro, talks a lot about this tendency, which he calls resistance, in terms of the...
by Orna Ross | Sep 4, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Novel Excerpt: “Sometimes, not too often, really not often at all, I allow myself a small imagining. Not a why-oh-why, or a what-if; something closer to a dream. “It is dusk in summer and we are walking towards the lake. The fading light has greyed the...
by Orna Ross | Aug 15, 2012 | FICTION |
Exciting news from Ireland (for history nerds). Secrets of the 1916 Easter Rising and War of Independence have been revealed by a new project from The Bureau of Military History that focusses on eyewitness accounts of the time. How I would have loved these to have...
by Orna Ross | Jul 6, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Creatives have always known the value of community and that ideas – and the people who have them – attract each other. Just ask any writer or artist who left home for the big city. Now economists are putting a monetary value on that. In 1990, economist...
by Orna Ross | Jul 4, 2012 | Uncategorized |
“The kernel, the soul – let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances – is plagiarism. “For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside...
by Orna Ross | Jun 25, 2012 | Uncategorized |
In his book, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, author Daniel Pink describes the change we now experiencing in work and education, as we shift from information-shuffling to creativity. “We progressed from a society of farmers to a society of...
by Orna Ross | Jun 21, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The best skill you can teach yourself as a creative is how to find the space between your thoughts, at will. Your thinking mind is best understood as an instrument, a tool. Yours to be used for a specific task and when the task is completed, laid down. We do that by...