{"id":3645,"date":"2014-08-16T20:09:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T00:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2015-01-03T06:13:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T11:13:09","slug":"keep-your-edge-33-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3645","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Edge \u2013 33 ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2369\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8437630158_6b27a82eb4_z_converted.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2369\" class=\"wp-image-2369 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8437630158_6b27a82eb4_z_converted-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"notebook, list, diary\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8437630158_6b27a82eb4_z_converted.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8437630158_6b27a82eb4_z_converted.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8437630158_6b27a82eb4_z_converted.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(photo: c1.staticflickr.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworldsbestever.com\/?s=33+ways+to+stay+creative&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\">lists of how to stay creative<\/a> keep coming around, and they\u2019re always worth a glance. Staying fresh in our own world is important, no matter what world that is. \u201cMake lists, carry a notebook everywhere, write your ideas down\u201d\u2014those suggestions are all of a piece, and I do that. Of course, later the urgent items I scribbled don\u2019t always make sense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo somewhere new, listen to new music, watch foreign films\u201d\u2014those suggestions are different ways of saying \u201cBreak out of your routine.\u201d I could do that by following suggestion #31\u2014\u201cClean your workspace,\u201d which, if I did would probably turn up some of those mystery notes. #29, \u201cStop trying to be someone else\u2019s perfect,&#8221; reminds me of the Steve Jobs admonition pasted above my computer: \u201cYour time is limited, so don\u2019t waste it living someone else\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t quite know what to think of \u201cbe otherworldly.\u201d That\u2019s the kind of obscure directive I might write myself. For this weekend, just \u201cDo more of what makes you happy!\u201d (#25).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These lists of how to stay creative keep coming around, and they\u2019re always worth a glance. Staying fresh in our own world is important, no matter what world that is. \u201cMake lists, carry a notebook everywhere, write your ideas down\u201d\u2014those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3645\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Keep Your Edge \u2013 33 ways","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,104],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagination","category-the-morgue","tag-creativity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-WN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3647,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions\/3647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}