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Category Archives: Creativity

How to overcome resistance and revisit your writing

How to overcome resistance and revisit your writing

  Do you need to revisit your recent writing project – a paper or your thesis – to make final corrections before submission? Are you experiencing a huge resistance to it? Postponing opening it? Dreading facing it? In the above video I explain where this resistance comes from and share with you ONE powerful tipContinue Reading

Learn from Nobel Prize Laureates

The Nobel Prize laureates of 2014 have been announced earlier this week. The interviews with each recipient of the prize can be listened by following the links below; there is also a transcription of each interview: PHYSICS: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was awarded jointly to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura “forContinue Reading

21 ways to be more creative (by Christine Kane)

Today I am reposting an awesome post by Christine Kane from her blog, the original can be found here. Creativity isn’t a big deal. It’s like our breath. It’s just a part of who we are. Some of us don’t realize this. People who say, “Oh, I’m not creative,” or “I don’t have a creativeContinue Reading

How to make writing a paper as easy as Facebooking

As I hear from scientists and researchers, Facebook is a common reason for getting distracted when you sit down to write your paper or thesis. Why is Facebook so attractive anyway? Why is it so easy to go on it and spend the odd 10-15 we might be having available between various things we doContinue Reading

How to re-focus on your work after a break?

How to re-focus on your work after a break?

  Are you about to take a week or two off to go on a vacation or some other travels? Do you worry how you are going to get back on track with your work as it is usually difficult for you to re-focus on your work after you come back from a vacation? YouContinue Reading