Fun Friday Resources

REMINDER: A Young Person’s Guide to Lichtenbergianism is now available for your holiday gift giving — currently at barnesandnoble.com but soon also at Amazon, etc. (It takes a while for Amazon to catch up.) If you prefer to support your local bookstore, they can order it through Ingram. (They’ll know how to do that.)

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This week we have two articles on the psychology of creativity: “Why you do your best thinking in the shower,” and “Scientists think they finally cracked the flow state.”

I would encourage you to read both articles; they have a lot to do with Lichtenbergianism and the creative process — TASK AVOIDANCE, WASTE BOOKS, RITUAL, ABANDONMENT, and our own contribution to neurologicalish research, shinyperfect.

If nothing else, the articles prove what I say right up front in Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy: Nothing I posit in the book is new or groundbreaking. It’s all part of the way we have MADE THE THING THAT IS NOT ever since someone in the distant past made a song or smeared ocher on a cave wall or decorated a pot and got a hit of dopamine from doing so.

Coding an app or inventing a cocktail or creating an electronica dance piece are just more recent ways to do the same thing.

Go thou and do likewise.