Podcast: Overcoming the Mid-project Blues
Segment 1: Overcoming the Mid-Project Blues
- Project go through three phases
- Start-up Enthusiasm
- Mid-Project Blues
- End-of-Project Euphoria (blog entry on recent launch)
- How do you overcome?
- Remind yourself why you started the project (e.g. go back to you notebooks and re-live the start)
- Take break ... go on vacation
- Come up with new ideas for the project (e.g. develop the plans for after launch)
Segment 2: Listener Question
"I'm a creative person. How do I get a job that is a better fit?"
Segment 3: Creativity Exercise
For this exercise, you will need:
- - Paper or something else to write on (e.g. index cards)
- - Pen or pencil
- - A stop watch or egg timer
Exercise:
- - imagine you were just given a pen made of clear plastic
- - There is one issue - it has no ink.
- - In one minute, how many ideas can you come up with?
The most I've seen is about a dozen or so ..... all in one minute.
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Comments
Possible uses for a pen with no ink ....
* straw
* whistle
* drink stirrer
* hole puncher
* weapon
How many more can you come up with?? Add your list to the comments section ....
Posted by: Phil McKinney | October 1, 2007 12:28 AM
-Stylus for passive screen
-hair stick
-dart blowpipe
-emergency phlebotomy
-pipette
Posted by: Mary Branscombe | October 1, 2007 02:46 PM
-spit wad shooter
-stamping perfect circles
-rolling paper
-paperclip
-carve name into a tree
-poke holes
-muscle massager
-finger strengthening with the spring
Posted by: Ryan Lee | October 1, 2007 05:44 PM
* add lenses - telescope
* why not refill the pen?
* small rolling pin
* toy for small child (better than my cell phone)
* soil tester
Posted by: Geoffrey Mayne | October 2, 2007 06:00 PM
In one minute i came up with the following:
-Straw
-Snorkle
-Tracheotomy tube
-Toy rocket (launch the end from the spring)
-Awl/hole punch
-Stylus for PDA
-Small pill container
Posted by: Frank Walsh | October 4, 2007 12:49 PM
I came up with these:
perfume container
single flower preserver-holder.
ultracool minimalist sculpture
caligraphy pen
stylus
Posted by: Gustavo Arizpe | October 5, 2007 12:56 AM
-PDA stylus
-Carving tool
-Pointer for blackboard presentations
-Drumming tool
-Scratch your back with it
Posted by: Juuso Lehtinen | October 7, 2007 10:52 AM
Good Exercise!!
I can only add two more:
* Toothpick Dispenser
* Wire Straightener
Posted by: Galen | October 8, 2007 10:15 AM
- dip in ink
- draw in sand
- send back for refill
- use as low-tech/low-battery laser pointer
- wear behind ear
- give away to police officer/parking control
- use as reason to move to paperless office
- use to explain your wife why you had to buy that new PDA...
Posted by: Sebastiaan la Bastide | October 9, 2007 08:39 PM
- Crsush and glue together to make shiny beads
- Melt it
- Use as a blower - to clean your laptop
- Use as a prism (make rainbows)
- Suck onto something (make a vacuum)
- Dip it in soap and blow bubbles
Posted by: Craig | October 17, 2007 02:23 AM