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How to Be More Creative: Abstraction and Improvisation (Part 3)!

How to Be More Creative: Abstraction and Improvisation (Part 3)!

Update: 2025-12-03
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Here we are, the third and final installment on how to be more creative! What a wild and winding journey it’s been, hopefully everyone is forever changed. Just a reminder: the essence (aka timbre - a unique quality of a sound that distinguishes it from other sounds) of a shower thought is a rambling (divergent) musing while in the shower - an environment where sound and heat are taking ego (fixedness) offline and allowing you to make more fluid connections. Water is also a fluid, which is a substance that can flow and take the shape of it’s container aka your body, your brain - which btw are constantly changing so best to keep a lot of things fluid, moving, lest some solids clog flow. Anywho, I hope you enjoy the neuroscience, the lateral movements, the abstractions, the improv, but most of all… I hope you dance.




To the beat of your own drum. 




Don’t fall in line, or do, it’s up to you! Talk again soon, toodles!




Edit: I meant to say “IAF does RC circuits, not currents” - I was speaking so fast that I flubbed that.




Also, second edit: for an electrical fire, always disconnect the power source first. 




Third edit at the end: Delight is surprise + happiness, not happiness + sadness - I was speaking too fast. 




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Resources:




This Is What It Sounds Like - Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas




Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance - Elise Vernon Pearlstine 




Plant Lore and Legend - Ruth Binney




The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan 




Most Delicious Poison - Noah Whiteman




The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets - Thomas R. Cech




The Mind-Gut Connection - Emeran Mayer, MD




On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters - Bonnie Tsui




The Beauty Molecule - Nicholas Perricone, MD




A neurocomputational model of creative processes 


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763422001452#bbib49




Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity


https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/34623410/Lateral_thinking-libre.pdf?1409804461=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DL_AT_ERAL_T_HINKING.pdf&Expires=1764634187&Signature=gNaugtGh5fV5tq9C76US8IlQFXrqcrkaQ8UfxyvUsb~UM2YhbJJB-9PQOD4gjmHvFVaHfBNuIWsr9a~eVOHZuveFrUdxx-zZJdmh3DDxosekQ2OoHM2trx2ixYlWitsqpWY5CfobdDM0aQVICGCb00--EUfzJJq0-gIrySw388J4EI8MvqHtWJaGEIXWJx7gwpYvhfF3xTJ12GFhUK4pvrmz8qoLYTmLLjs3AwFZ-EWPRRfcCh8M6-eELduwJaTfi05edifhH6duN9qzmVUe7Nc-egIYIxcYWzIbFvwbDqseOpBDa2vD42DEZrU9eL4vW3XiYOobx6RD31QGEEvnpQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA




Play It As It Lies | What Does This Mean?


https://cattailcrossing.ca/blog/play-it-as-it-lies-what-does-this-mean/ 




Improv Games for Collaboration


https://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/improv-games-for-collaboration

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How to Be More Creative: Abstraction and Improvisation (Part 3)!

How to Be More Creative: Abstraction and Improvisation (Part 3)!

Sarah Schauer & Studio71