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10 Ways to Overcome Creativity’s No.1 Crusher
“The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt,” wrote Sylvia Plath in her journal. And she couldn’t have been more accurate.
Self-doubt can persuade us to stop creating or keep us from sending our work out into the world. It can be so influential that it colors how we see ourselves, ensuring we don’t pick up a pen, paintbrush, camera or other tool for decades.
“Self-doubt paralyzed me for 25 years,” said Meghan Davidson, Ph.D, a psychologist, professor and researcher at the University of Nebraska. When Davidson was eight years old, her art teacher wrote in her report card that she had “no artistic abi...
Source: World of Psychology - March 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Creativity General Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help 100 Paintings Art Teacher Artful Blogging Artistic Ability Brevity Carla Creativity Book Crusher Health Crisis Human Nature Illustrator Impo Source Type: blogs
Variously:
1. I am back in Kurdistan, for two weeks this time. It’s pretty much as I remember it: the people are welcoming, the city sprawls and grows almost as you watch, and the work is exciting. The main differences from my last trip here (apart from knowing the lie of the land) are that I have a colleague with me, and it’s about eighty degrees. Both of these differences are adding further gladness to the proceedings.
2. I am knitting for a baby who isn’t born yet. This is one of my favourite things to do. I love the idea that even before he knows what it means, this new little one will be wrapped in something th...
Source: Bah! to cancer - April 5, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Musings Uncategorized knitting kurdistan travel Source Type: blogs
Not even a night off
Well, my friends, yesterday I pressed the button that sent the document-that-is-approximately-the-shape-of-a-novel off to my editor, Lovely Emma.
‘Breaking Bread’ is done.
Well, I say done. Lovely Emma will read it and (if ‘Surrounded By Water’ is anything to go by) make some suggestions that will (a) make the document-that-is-approximately-the-shape-of-a-novel into something approximating a real book and (b) have me slapping my forehead and demanding why I didn’t think of that myself. (This is the asymmetry of creativity in action.)
So, once I’d sent the manuscript off, I felt a little ...
Source: Bah! to cancer - March 27, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Breaking Bread Uncategorized writing Source Type: blogs
75 Reasons You're Unhappy (And 75 Solutions)
“Man is not made for defeat.” - Ernest HemingwayCircumstance is our scapegoat.But it’s not the culprit.Because reality is but a perception, a trick of the mind.Influenced - but certainly not controlled - by external situations.We’re unhappy because we allow ourselves to be.Often we plant our own seeds of discontent. Sometimes we realize it, but most of the time, the seeds take root and begin to blossom completely unbeknownst to us. Until it’s too late.Until the seed is a tree.Unhappiness stems from many different things, but it’s within our power to eliminate. So let’s pull it up by the roots. Desire - “Whe...
Source: Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life - March 4, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: DLM Writers Source Type: blogs
This week in virology, parasitism, and microbiology
In the past five days we released three science shows on the TWi* network.
On This Week in Microbiology (TWiM) episode #52, Vincent and Michael meet up with Ellen Jo Baron to talk about working in a clinical microbiology laboratory.
On This Week in Parasitism (TWiP) episode #52, Vincent and Dickson review the life cycle and pathogenesis of the giant kidney worm, Dioctophyme renale.
On This Week in Virology (TWiV) episode #224, Vincent, Alan, Kathy, and Dickson discuss identification of a cell receptor for the coronavirus-EMC, and the role of interferon-epsilon in protecting the female reproductive tract.
Thanks for listening.
Source: virology blog - March 17, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Microbiology This Week in Parasitism This Week in Virology clinical microbiology coronavirus EMC dioctophyme renale ellen jo baron giant kidney worm interferon epsilon viral Source Type: blogs
TWiV 223: EEEV and the serpent
On episode #223 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Kathy discuss new influenza virus NA inhibitors, detection of EEEV antibody and RNA in snakes, and replication of the coronavirus EMC in human airway epithelial cells.
You can find TWiV #223 at www.twiv.tv.
Source: virology blog - March 10, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology alphavirus coronavirus EMC eastern equine encephalitis virus EEEV human airway epithelial cells influenza neuraminidase relenza snakes tamiflu togavirus viral zoonotic Source Type: blogs
Nora Ephron’s Final Act - NYTimes.com
At 10 p.m. on a Friday night in a private room on the 14th Floor of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital on 68th and York Avenue, my mother was lying in her bed hallucinating, in that dream space people go on their way to being gone.She spoke of seeing trees, possibly a forest. And she mentioned to Nick, my stepfather, that she had been to the theater where her play was showing and that the audience was full. In reality, she had not left the hospital in a month, and the play, "Lucky Guy," was nearly a year away from opening.My brother, Max, and I stood there in disbelief. Though it had been weeks since her blood count showed any ...
Source: Psychology of Pain - March 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
Veterinary Applications of Real-time PCR for Detection and Diagnosis of Infectious Agents
from Alan McNally writing in Real-Time PCR: Advanced Technologies and Applications:The detection and diagnosis of veterinary infectious diseases is an area in which the potential of Real-time PCR has been best demonstrated. In particular Real-time PCR has been successfully applied as a front line tool in the diagnostic algorithm for notifiable veterinary viral pathogens such as Avian Influenza, foot-and-mouth disease, bluetongue virus, as well as rabies and Newcastle disease virus. The rapidly transmissible nature of these agents necessitates near real-time detection and diagnosis in suspected infected animals to allow imp...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - April 11, 2013 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs
Astounding Improv "Fillibuster" From Patton Oswalt
Alan Sepinwall: In the episode itself, you hear a few lines of dialogue from it, but when the episode was filmed, “Parks [and Recreation]” producer Dan Goor told Oswalt to just improvise something and they would edit it down as needed in the final cut. Oswald launched into an eight-minute rant that you can watch [above]. It’s remarkable for the absolutely hardcore nerditry of it, for Oswalt’s commitment to a bit that he knew would likely never air, and also...
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - April 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
Intermittent and random
1. I haven’t forgotten you. The interwebs of Erbil are temperamental at best, and can go off and sulk for three days if you so much as ask them to upload a photo.
2. I had a fabulous fortnight. Kurdistan lived up to all I remembered and loved about it last time, and more. (I could have done without the sandflies and the mosquitoes and the equally temperamental hot water. The trick was to have a shower when no-one else was. 5.45am and 3pm were my biggest successes.)
3. Today I will be reunited with Alan and we’re heading off to France, via a couple of nights in Portsmouth. I can’t wait.
4. I have ideas f...
Source: Bah! to cancer - April 20, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Musings erbil kurdistan pank resort Source Type: blogs
TWiV 229: Partly cloudy with a high of H7N9
On episode #229 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent, Rich, Dickson, and Alan review the current status of human infections with avian influenza H7N9 virus.
You can find TWiV #229 at www.twiv.tv.
Source: virology blog - April 21, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology avian H7N9 brambling China duck H2N9 influenza pandemic reassortant Shanghai vaccine viral virus WHO wild bird Source Type: blogs
Drug reps. The sinister side-effects of drug marketing By Alan Cassels
This study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine and carried out by researchers in Canada, the U.S. and France, asked the question: When a drug sales rep has a private one-to-one conversation with a doctor, what kind of drug information does the physician actually receive?
If you’ve ever seen the well-dressed men and women with iPads and nice shoes in your doctor’s waiting room, you’ll know what a drug sales rep looks like. Working on behalf of pharmaceutical companies, they visit our doctors on an individual basis, dropping off free samples of medications, talking up the company’s products and ot...
Source: PharmaGossip - April 25, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
TWiV 230: Gene goes to Washington, flu chickens out
On episode #230 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent, Rich, Alan and Kathy review H7N9 infections in China, the debate over patenting genes, and receptor-binding by ferret-transmissible avian H5 influenza virus.
You can find TWiV #230 at www.twiv.tv.
Source: virology blog - April 28, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology aerosol avian influenza H7N9 China ferret gene patent H5N1 poultry receptor binding Shanghai sialic acid Supreme Court of the United States transmission viral virus Source Type: blogs
Simpson-Bowles and Daschle-Frist-Domenici: Unveil Plans for Reducing Healthcare Spending
In addition to the President’s FY 2014 we previously reported on, former Fiscal Commission heads, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, unveiled an updated deficit reduction plan – building on a framework released in February 2013 – including $2.5 trillion in savings from spending cuts and revenue increases, of which $585 billion comes from healthcare reductions and reforms over the next 10 years. Highlights from this plan, courtesy of Thorn Run Partners include:
Delivery System and Payment Reforms (-$60B/10): Among other recommendations, includes the cost of replacing the SGR with a payment freeze coupled with a s...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 29, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Back
As I write this, it’s exactly four weeks since I was waiting for a cab to take me to the airport for the first leg of my trip to Kurdistan. (It’s not a complicated journey. Newcastle to Heathrow, night at the Hilton, get up at stupid o’clock, fly to Vienna then on to Erbil. About 7 and a half hours in the air, about 24 hours altogether. In knitting terms: a sock. In reading terms: a book, though not a fat one.)
It’s been quite an almost-month. The work in Kurdistan was rewarding, not to say compelling, and the place itself ate up a little bit more of my heart. The friends I made last time turned out...
Source: Bah! to cancer - May 2, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Life is Good Musings Travels Source Type: blogs
