Quotes. The fine line in storytelling | Response Crafting. Image credit: Global Patriot Story-telling is founded on the art of illustration and embellishment; it depends on colorful language and imagery. There is, however, a fine line between good story-telling and outright bullshitting. We should all strive to have something unique about our own story, so many of us find something and make it into a major theme in our personal history. Struggle or “rags to riches” works particularly well for things like this.
(e.g., Stephen King and Jim Carrey both used to be janitors, J.K. Rowling was contemplating suicide when she wrote Harry Potter for her kids. There are countless more.) Interesting beginnings make our story a little more worthy of retelling. One such example is this: every once in a great while, I hear from people that they “used to be homeless.” What do you mean by that, exactly? As in: “just how homeless? And this is not to discount homelessness – in fact, quite the opposite. I met him at work. “Oh, wow…. Oh. Like this: Like Loading... INCIDENTAL COMICS. The Nature of Ambition.
Az said... well, that's so true. Soemtimes though, it's not due to ambition. Things just get bigger and bigger until you can't handle them. The important thing is always: do what you love January 15, 2013 at 1:22 PM Glen Isip said... Such a sweet ending! January 15, 2013 at 1:50 PM Kathryn said... lovely ending, in fact the whole comic is lovely. i enjoyed the journey. :) January 15, 2013 at 4:11 PM dean said... Such a beautiful story. January 16, 2013 at 1:04 AM syed said... i still belive, There is nothing spontanous or natural about Human desires, we know what we desire but how do we what we desire, its all created from outside January 16, 2013 at 6:28 AM Grant said... Thanks all! January 16, 2013 at 7:48 AM Catie Chan said... Someone posted your comic on 9gag. January 17, 2013 at 1:23 PM Paintings said... You've really captured the fun in these. January 18, 2013 at 12:18 AM Lisa said... Grant, that is so sweet!
January 19, 2013 at 12:31 AM Anonymous said... Saw you reblogged on tumblr! Jull said... TED. Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationship. Life After College by Jenny Blake. Written by Melissa Anzman Impatience is a virtue… said the overly ambitious employee with their eyes set on their next move. Ambition is a great characteristic to have, especially early on in your career. It will help you stay on track, push yourself outside of your comfort zone, and keep you far away from the dreaded work complacency bug. But while you are busy being ambitious, you tend to miss important lessons and skillsets around you.
I know the narrowing of focus first-hand. I ignored the small things, the lessons, the connections, and the work. My ambition scared people. Only as I look back can I see how the approach I took wasn’t the best one, it wasn’t the most efficient one to move up. How to Stop Being Overly Ambitious and Still Move Up Create a Clear Map of What You Need to Learn in Each Role For every job you take or create, you need to go into it with a clear set of skills and knowledge that you want to learn from the position. Fully Understand Your Why Create your why. The Unlost. Puttylike. Creative Gibberish. Divergent thinking – more than a mere tool – is a technique very commonly used on creative activities because it allows us to expand our brains a little bit, by looking for new opportunities and ways of getting things done.
So, from the problem – or whatever triggers your creativity – to the solution, instead of taking obvious steps and walking on a straight line, you force yourself to see different aspects of the situation, using unusual points of view, no matter how abstract of absurd they seem at the first place. This can be done by allowing everyone to think more freely while working on the task, gathering ideas that have the slightest relation to the problem itself rather than looking straight for a practical solution.
Though it might sound like a waste of time, many corporations have found appealing answers to their problems by using such method. Another misconception around the divergent thinking is that the creative process should be all about it. The Divergent Thinker by Dr. Lovecky. Divergent thinkers can be exceptionally creative. If the ability to think divergently is related to being creative, then all creative people are divergent thinkers, but not the other way around. It's the ability to direct the divergent ideas into something else that makes a person creative.
Creativity is not just making something though. It can also be the process of enabling others to see one's vision of how things ought to be. All great philosophers are divergent thinkers, and many of those who protest injustice. What motivates the action taken to protest injustice though determines whether the divergent thinker turns out to be a Gandhi or a Unabomber.
People who are divergent thinkers are novel thinkers. Being a divergent thinker irritates and upsets other people who often feel the divergent one should sit down and shut up, and wonder why he or she can't just be like everyone else. People have trouble with divergent thinkers because the essence of divergent thinking is rebellion.