Recently been feeling kinda down...perhaps its loneliness? Not that I don't have good friends or whatever, its just the vast amount of time spent alone is starting to pull down on me...that, or the vast amount of time spent not doing anything that helps me improve myself or make a living is the cause.
Need to do something to fulfill myself...but in the meantime, gonna just occupy myself with some basketball.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
First Day
Its the first day of the NEW SEMESTER...woohoo (insert copyrighted sarcasm mark), it'll be so fun. Not that I don't want to get back into university, however the drudgery of work is not something anyone looks forward to, unless of course that work is your pleasure. In the case of dentistry, however enjoyable the work is when done correctly, it is definitely far from pleasurable when not done properly. Or the numbers of hours one must devote to infusing one's memory with dental facts.
Aside from that, saw an ad on ESPN for some kind of 'from their own words' ('their' being highly paid professional athletes). And one saying really caught my eye: 'Don't think about it tomorrow, think about it NOW'. Very simple words, but they did kinda stir something up inside me. Something along the lines 'How much easier life would be if I simply followed that...and stopped procrastinating stuff'.
Moving on, I encountered another good saying from teamliquid...
"If you're not practicing, just remember that someone, somewhere else is practicing. And when you two meet, he will beat you."
- Bill Bradley
Now that is also a very good saying. Its basically saying...work hard man, cause someone out there is working when you aren't and if you don't work as hard as he or more, you'll lose out. Or god knows, maybe everyone out there is working harder than you and if you don't step up your game, crap will come raining down from the skies until the day you die.
Something else to think about
Aside from that, saw an ad on ESPN for some kind of 'from their own words' ('their' being highly paid professional athletes). And one saying really caught my eye: 'Don't think about it tomorrow, think about it NOW'. Very simple words, but they did kinda stir something up inside me. Something along the lines 'How much easier life would be if I simply followed that...and stopped procrastinating stuff'.
Moving on, I encountered another good saying from teamliquid...
"If you're not practicing, just remember that someone, somewhere else is practicing. And when you two meet, he will beat you."
- Bill Bradley
Now that is also a very good saying. Its basically saying...work hard man, cause someone out there is working when you aren't and if you don't work as hard as he or more, you'll lose out. Or god knows, maybe everyone out there is working harder than you and if you don't step up your game, crap will come raining down from the skies until the day you die.
Something else to think about
Friday, February 18, 2011
Creativity Through Constraint
Yes, I have returned after a 3(4?) month hiatus...and honest to god, this return is motivated mainly by the selfish need to feel like I'm actually accomplishing something. I feel like I can count the number of activities I'll be performing in the following year with my fingers:
1. Studying
2. Gaming
3. Exercising
4. ...Miscellaneous (Groceries, cooking, sleeping)
Hence, I figured maybe it would be a good time to restart the blog. In retrospect, seeing how I first wrote about dental things, and then motivational things, and both of them failed, I figure maybe I'll just go about this blog without any plans or whatnot, just see what kind of direction randomness will take me. In the meantime though, I still do feel like talking about various sayings and what they mean...
So today, I guess I'll be talking about the notion of Creativity through Constraint. This was something first heard from another Day 9 Daily, something that has stuck itself quite well in my head...so well in fact, I can't seem to think of another way to inspire creativity.
So anyway, the concept is that in order to inspire creativity one must impose some kinds of constraints upon oneself. The first example I think of is immediately the Day9 Daily Funday Monday, where you have to play a certain kind of way in order to get your replay featured - e.g warp prisms, nydus worms, contaminates (most recent one). And interestingly enough, although sometimes garbage does happen some new and innovative things do come up, things that people didn't really consider, unexpectedly powerful things.
Which made me think, what happens if you apply this to your everyday activities? What if one day I suddenly sat down and said 'no computer every alternating day', would I be forced to think of new things to do to fill up my time? I certainly think so.
Something interesting to incorporate if anybody's willing.
1. Studying
2. Gaming
3. Exercising
4. ...Miscellaneous (Groceries, cooking, sleeping)
Hence, I figured maybe it would be a good time to restart the blog. In retrospect, seeing how I first wrote about dental things, and then motivational things, and both of them failed, I figure maybe I'll just go about this blog without any plans or whatnot, just see what kind of direction randomness will take me. In the meantime though, I still do feel like talking about various sayings and what they mean...
So today, I guess I'll be talking about the notion of Creativity through Constraint. This was something first heard from another Day 9 Daily, something that has stuck itself quite well in my head...so well in fact, I can't seem to think of another way to inspire creativity.
So anyway, the concept is that in order to inspire creativity one must impose some kinds of constraints upon oneself. The first example I think of is immediately the Day9 Daily Funday Monday, where you have to play a certain kind of way in order to get your replay featured - e.g warp prisms, nydus worms, contaminates (most recent one). And interestingly enough, although sometimes garbage does happen some new and innovative things do come up, things that people didn't really consider, unexpectedly powerful things.
Which made me think, what happens if you apply this to your everyday activities? What if one day I suddenly sat down and said 'no computer every alternating day', would I be forced to think of new things to do to fill up my time? I certainly think so.
Something interesting to incorporate if anybody's willing.
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