by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity
Great ideas are a dime a dozen. That’s roughly 0.83 cents an idea. I have plenty of ideas. For example, I currently have—written out and accessibly filed—the following idea sets: Blog Topics: 153 ideasBig Ideas: 45 ideasProduct ideas: 4 ideasAffiliate ideas: 19...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Ikigai
As I have mentioned in a previous post (I Am Blogging About Too Many Topics), although I feel good about blogging daily—after all, it’s not just a daily writing practice, it’s a daily publishing practice—I don’t like that my blog is unfocused. It’s not that I write...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Writing
My desk lamp isn’t just “aesthetically unpleasing.” It’s ugly. The base is too wide. There are cables and wires everywhere. It’s bulky, without any elegance of design. And its rotating joints are exposed and complicated. I cringe whenever I see it. Yet, it does one...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Writing Habits
I believe that innovation (what I like to define as creativity engineering) benefits from collaboration, diversity, and serendipitous engagement. But another thing innovation needs? Periodic separation and quiet. Alone time. Thinking time. Silence. Open doors are...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Blogging, Creativity, Writing
The creative part of blogging is choosing the subject, writing the piece, and selecting a photo. Everything else is mindless. Creative: Choose the topicCreative: Write the rough draft of the blog post on Ulysses.Mindless: Spell check the post on Grammarly.Mindless:...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Writing, Writing Habits
Here’s my solution to writer’s block. I have a sufficient number of parallel writing projects in the works, that when I stall on one, I shift to the other. In my case, I currently have a daily blog, two non-fiction projects, and one fiction project, which has allowed...
