by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Oct 28, 2022 | Creativity
One thing I’ve observed in my recent photography class: in a group of people who don’t know each other well, most people need permission to be creative. When a photography assignment is given a set of certain restraints or rules, if just one person goes to the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Oct 27, 2022 | Creativity
Chaos doesn’t necessarily lead to creativity, or to something “better.” Random solutions rarely are effective for problem solving —and much of creativity is problem solving. In practice what this means is when we increase chaos we increase the number...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Oct 12, 2022 | Creativity, Photography, Writing
Right now, most of my creative energy is focused on writing—especially in the fiction arena—but this week I have also started a course on one of my creative hobbies: black and white photography. Here’s an odd thing. Despite having committed to completing two of my...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Oct 7, 2022 | Creativity, Writing
I’ve used the writing software Scrivener for several years, and I am comfortable with most of it’s basic functions, but over the last week I did the tutorial again. Why? Not to learn how to use the software—I already know that—but instead to review how I think as I...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Oct 5, 2022 | Creativity, Writing
My desk totem for my writing space—my creative space—is a baby dragon hatching from an egg. It’s the one personal item I have on my desk. I selected it for a specific reason: It is a reminder that no matter how powerful an idea will become, at birth it can be fragile...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Sep 27, 2022 | Creativity
I go out for a walk each day from variety of reasons. First and foremost, it’s for the physical exercise (for me, at this time in my life, walking and health are intimately related). I also use my walks as mental exercise. I always have a podcast ready to go, and I...
