For many creative professionals life can be a never-ending roller coaster, making even the most successful and accomplished people question their sense of identity and worth. I hope to shed some light on this painful shifting and lay out some ways that creative professionals can brave the storm.
Protestant Work Ethic or High Latitude Adaptation?
North Europeans like myself are notoriously prone to bipolar “disorder” and seasonal affective “disorder.” Are these really disorders, or are our minds and bodies telling us that we are forcing ourselves into a pattern of summer productivity which is ultimately unsustainable?
The Brain Activity of a Poker Player
So what distinguishes the amateur from the professional, a study by partypoker set out to answer the question. Six players, two beginners, two intermediate and two experts were observed playing forty minute sessions of Texas Hold’em poker. All the participants wore electroencephalography (EEG) headsets by Emotiv and the data was then converted to colour coded brain maps. The brain activity of amateurs and experts were then compared at key stages of the game.
Bullying, Fear, And The Full Moon (Part Four)
Now that research has shown that childhood bullying produces long-term detrimental effects, it is even more urgent that every effort be made not only to put an end to bullying but also to seek out and embrace and protect its victims, to help them summon the courage to be who they truly are, to find and follow their bliss.
Bullying, Fear, And The Full Moon (Part Three)
As I got a bit older Bill began taking me out to some of his favourite haunts. We smoked Dunhill cigarettes and we drank whiskey from a mickey he kept in the glove compartment of the Beetle as we drove through Stanley Park. He talked to me of music and of the meaning and value of friendship and loyalty.
Bullying, Fear, And The Full Moon (Part Two)
Professor Wolke points out that “the worst outcomes we found [were] for those children who were bullied at school and bullied at home. Just imagine the child: you go to school and you get victimized there, and then you go home and the same thing happens there – because these are children who don’t have a safe place anywhere.”
Bullying, Fear, And The Full Moon (Part One)
A person who has been bullied does not “grow out of” the fear that unremitting bullying causes; the fear simply goes underground, quietly working its poison into the nervous system of a life, shutting down passion, stifling creativity, mocking love.
“You’re beginning to believe the illusions we’re spinning here” (Part Two)
More than at any other time in recent memory, I am hearing the lament that the world is in a terrible state and that things just seem to be getting worse.
PCVR-01
The Perceiver collection depicts wave-particle duality in Quantum physics as abstract landscapes.
Was Charlie Parker Following His Bliss?
We of the masses who consume or benefit from the products of highly creative minds and souls often have a romantic notion of the “tortured genius.” But we do not live in their world.
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