Creative people differ from each other in many ways but one are unanimous: they all love what they do. It is not what she s doing that counts, but how.
· Try to be surprised by something every day.
· Try to surprise at least one person each day.
· Write each day what surprised you and how you surprised others.
· When something you find interesting, follow it.
· Recognize that if you do anything well it becomes enjoyable.
· To maintain the pleasure of something increases its complexity.
· Allow time for reflection and relaxation.
· Find out what you like and what you hate life.
· Start making more of what you like and less of what you hate.
· Find a way to express what moves you.
· Look at the problems from all possible viewpoints.
· Have as many ideas as possible.
· Try to produce original ideas.
By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The futurist magazine, September-October 1997, pp. 8-12.
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thanks, I'll remember, I have almost as bedtime reading Keri Smith and the book How to be an explorer of the world