Improve Your Creative #Writing And Thinking Skills With Daily #Exercise - Use it, Or Lose it...

"Writing exercises are something you must cultivate daily to enhance your writing and creative skills. "

Creative Writing Exercises for Aspiring Writers

 By Jamie Smartkins

Writing exercises are indispensable requirements for any aspiring writers and keep the creativity intact. So if you want to be a writer/author, you need to keep writing. Sounds easy ? No, it’s not that easy coz you will be bogged down by mischievous writer’s block. I can say writer’s block is our friend which tells us we are moving too fast.

So to write quality content , we must take proper breaks during our writing. It’s not that we would be writing continuously for hours before we drained out of content or creativity. Even if you are a content writer having years of experience in writing on wide range of topics, when it comes to creative and literary writing , its a different ball game altogether.

#1 Writing prompts – One of the basic writing exercises

Without doubts, creative writing prompts are great ways to boost your creative intent. There are plethora of information available in the internet to give you multiple creative ideas and prompts. This should help you to get into the writing mode and will be a great writing exercise.

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CREATIVITY BELONGS TO EVERYONE

#IDEAS: #GatesNotes - Insider Report On Nuturing Your Bold Ideas

"But computational science does help us make leaps of reason that can bring us closer to a world of abundant clean energy, and where poverty and preventable disease are things of the past. As the Wright brothers showed, the right invention at the right time can change the world." - Bill Gates

How I test bold ideas

Will it fly?

By Bill Gates

"I’m always looking for ambitious ideas on ways we can generate huge amounts of energy with minimal carbon emissions. It’s one of the defining technical challenges of our time. The urgency of the need means we have to try lots of different ideas and figure out quickly whether each idea will actually work. Part 3 of the Netflix series Inside Bill’s Brain gives a cameo role to a tool that I rely on to get those answers: computer modeling. This tool is enormously powerful today in part because of what happened in computing during my first career. It’s important enough that I think everyone should know more about it."

Many years ago, I used to visit a friend who had a house near Kitty Hawk, the “birthplace of flight” in North Carolina. As I walked the beach there, I would picture a scene from another era: two young bicycle mechanics running down the hill after the flying machine they had built, chasing their dream of an airplane that could carry people for miles without crashing.

Earlier pioneers in aviation had taken bold leaps of faith with their inventions. A few had made that leap literally—and plunged to their deaths. But the bike mechanics Orville and Wilbur Wright did something smarter. They built a rudimentary wind tunnel. The replica I saw at Kitty Hawk was just a coffin-size box with a gas-powered fan at one end.

The brothers used their wind tunnel to experiment with model elevators, rudders, propellers and wings they cut from saw blades and spare parts. They tried long, skinny wings and squarish, nearly flat ones, some that were curled and others that were thicker on the leading edge. None were bigger than your hand.

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INVENTIONS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD

#KLSF: #HBR Leaders Never Stop #Learning

"Sustainable competitive advantage depends on having people that know how to build relationships, seek information, make sense of observations and share ideas through an intelligent use of new technologies. "

The Best Leaders Are Constant Learners

 By Kenneth Mikkelsen and 

Harold Jarche

As Juan Manuel Fangio exited the chicane before the blind Tabac corner in the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix, he stomped on the brake. It was a counterintuitive reaction for a racing driver exiting a corner — but one that likely saved his life. By slowing down he avoided plowing into a multi-car pile-up, which was just out of sight beyond the turn. In racing folklore, Fangio’s evasive action is considered a miracle. But why did he slow down?

The day before the race, Fangio had seen a photograph of a similar accident in 1936. As he approached Tabac, he noticed something about the crowd – an unusual color. Fangio realized that, instead of seeing their faces, he was seeing the backs of their heads. Something further down the road had to be attracting their attention. That made him recall the photograph.

Like Fangio, leaders must scan the world for signals of change, and be able to react instantaneously. We live in a world that increasingly requires what psychologist Howard Gardner calls searchlight intelligence. That is, the ability to connect the dots between people and ideas, where others see no possible connection. An informed perspective is more important than ever in order to anticipate what comes next and succeed in emerging futures.

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NEVER STOP LEARNING

#Week4Future: Global #Climate #Strike Week - @postcarbon

At this unprecedented pivital juncture in human history Picasso Creative Writing Method is pleased to annouce its support and endorsement of the beliefs, policies and actions of:

Post Carbon Institute

Our Strategy

Post Carbon Institute provides individuals and communities with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated ecological, economic, energy, and equity crises of the 21st century. We help build resilience to withstand these crises, and support social and cultural change to make society more ready to take decisive and appropriate action. Specifically, we:

• Grow collective understanding of our energy reality, and the need for both conservation and appropriate, community-centric renewable energy.
• Promote community resilience as the best way to build thriving, relocalized neighborhoods, towns, and cities capable of withstanding coming disruptions.
• Support a growing movement of innovators and early adopters who can develop best practices and provide leadership both now and during future crises.

"But even if hope has to be held lightly in the steely-eyed recognition of what we face, we still must take action. Much of that action comes back to our own backyards."

A sea change moment?

Asher Miller

September 19, 2019

Tomorrow begins Global Climate Strike Week, led by young people to demand urgent action to address the climate emergency. What many hope will be a sea change moment in the struggle to mobilize a real response to this existential threat had a humble start a year ago when a young Swedish student, Greta Thunberg, began spending her Fridays protesting in front of the Swedish Parliament. Inspired by Greta’s example—and her blunt, uncompromising stance—millions of students have since joined her in the “Fridays for the Future” movement. This week is an opportunity for the rest of us to participate.

I will be out on the streets tomorrow and the following Friday in my hometown, and I’ll be joining a number of other activities planned locally over the coming week. PCI is supporting our staff to actively participate in the various communities where they live. We’d like to encourage you to do the same. Visit the Climate Strike website to find activities near you.

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The Most Important Speech Ever

#Write And #Design By-Hand Beats Computer

“The hand is the window on to the mind.” — Immanuel Kant

GUESS WHO"S USING A WHITE BOARD?

Forget the computer — here’s why you should write and 

design by hand

Herbert Lui
ANSWER
STEVE JOBS

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USE CLUSTERING FOR IDEAS

Wanna Super Brain? = Physically Fit #People Have Better #Brains

 "We see that fitter people have better brain health, so we now need to ask whether actually making people fitter will improve their brain health. Finding this out is our next step."

Sound Body, Sound Mind: Physically Fit People Have Stronger, Sharper Brains

• Dr. Elaine 

It’s no secret that exercise can be beneficial from a psychological perspective. A session at the gym or jog around the neighborhood can help us clear our mind, reset our thoughts, and improve our mood. Now, a team of German scientists have discovered that keeping oneself physically fit is also associated with better brain structure and functioning in young adults.

The research team believe their findings indicate that if a person can improve their physical fitness, it may lead to improved cognitive ability, including elevated memory retention and superior problem solving.

There have been a number of previous studies that concluded exercise is beneficial for the brain, but most of that research failed to account for numerous underlying variables that may have skewed their findings. Examples of such variables include study participants’ body weights, blood glucose levels, age, and education. Furthermore, most of these studies focused on the effect exercise has on mood and behavior, not brain structure and mental functioning.

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EXERCISE IS BRAIN MEDICINE

#BrainCare: Tips For Building Your Best #Brain

"It's more helpful to master real-world skills than to play online "cognitive enhancement" games. "We've found that people improve on the specific tasks in those games," she says, "but that doesn't really correlate with real-world activities."

How to Keep Your Brain Fit

By Marisa Cohen

Your brain is truly the most amazing part of your body. It comes up with creative ways to express your thoughts and emotions, coordinates movements from chopping onions to running an obstacle course, stores your most precious childhood memories, and solves the Sunday crossword. But it's easy to take those powers for granted.

"Many people don't start thinking about their brain health until they notice some cognitive changes and memory loss in their 60s or 70s," says Elise Caccappolo, PhD, an associate professor of neuropsychology at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. "But there are many things you can do, starting as young as childhood, to keep your brain as healthy as possible throughout your lifetime. We know that intellectual pursuits, social interaction, and perhaps most importantly, physical activity are helpful in keeping one's brain sharp."

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MORE BRAIN FITNESS IDEAS

#IDEAS: Brain Enhancing Skills #Leaders Need

"...positive attitude is crucial for brain health. Positive thoughts stimulate secretion of neuro-transmitters which facilitate thinking, learning and creativity. Negative thoughts stimulate secretion of inhibitor chemicals which block or limit the flow of electro-chemical impulses and reduce brain performance."

Five 'brain enhancing' skills leaders will need by 2020

Written by Carole Gaskell 

According to The World Economic Forum's ‘Future of Jobs’ report, complex problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, judgment and decision making, and cognitive flexibility will be amongst the most desirable skills most in demand by 2020. 

All five skills are cognitive based – core skills that our brains use to think, read, learn, remember, reason, and pay attention. Working together, they take incoming information and move it into the bank of knowledge you use every day at work, and in life. Anyone who functions well cognitively can quickly process various mental activities most closely associated with learning and problem solving.

Critical thinking is key to success in any industry as people that are good at this can analyse information objectively and make reasoned judgments. They evaluate data, facts and observable phenomena; discriminate between valuable and less valuable information; and then draw clear conclusions to help solve a problem or make a decision. 

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