Picture two artists tasked to create works of art. Artist A is given limitations. He is told that it must be a painting on a 1 meter by 1 meter canvas. He is also given time constraints-- perhaps 4 weeks. Further he may be given subject constraints--- perhaps the one who commissioned it is …
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Some More Thinking Inside the Box. Part 1
I have talked about this before... but it seems to be worthy of more thoughts. Since I have started intentionally listening for the phrase "thinking outside of the box" or the instruction "Think outside the box", 1. The issue isn't thinking outside of the box but understanding the difference between real constraints and areas of …
Struggling Creatively
My ancestors are Swedish. My great-grandparents came to the US in the 1880s. Not too much of Swedish traditions were passed on to me. One thing that was passed down to us was Swedish food. I knew about limpa, ingladt sil, potatiskorv, lingenberry, sylta, rotmos, gloog, rice pudding, lutfisk, among other things. One time, my …