Massimo Curatella

Limit yourself intentionally to appreciate the value of your old dear tools and acquire or upgrade your old tools to get a creativity boost.

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We should change our personal development systems from pursuing goals to more reflective behaviors about developing our potential.

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What if we wrote our intentions, ready to be read and executed when the actual context would present?

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I lay down on the bench, belly up. The sky is blue and the high leaves are gently dancing. I perceive a presence without looking. The small fountain at the center of the natural square,…

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I wish I could evoke again those incredible feelings of happiness and joy of being on holiday.

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You don’t necessarily need big occasions, big names, or extremely ambitious contexts, you can create opportunities every time with everybody, everywhere.

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But today, my dear opposite me, I won.

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How to live with the knowledge of the evils of the world without being corrupted by them?

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If you want to design and develop fast, prepare the components you need going through a careful and dedicated working session. Do not rush it.

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He always felt he was meant to be special. It’s a cultural problem when your family treat you ash you are not a common human being. He liked to play with other children, like everybody…

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Changing place helps changing perspective. Although we always can bring our digital world with us when you are on the move you are forced to be more creative. Finding the right route, the right destination…

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Take some dedicated time to recognize the good done by somebody else and you’ll live better.

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I adore this format, I want to read book in his way in the future. It’s fun, engaging, active and It makes me learn, connect and remember more.

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You need to state a clear intention in your saving and take care of its accessibility when and if needed.

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I wish I could have much more codesign and cocreation sessions like this, in the future.

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Imagine seeing lives as stories already told. How would you change your behavior? What would you do?

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We need to be more critical in our approach to consuming what surrounds us and move to a different mindset, the one of being creators rather than consumers.

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When planning in uncertainty a possibility is to specify as little as possible and let the forces on the systems to do their job. When you are aware of the problem’s context and you know…

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Everything could be wrong, but time and resources are not wasted because you better grasp the subject and its context.

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It’s a way to work, productively and provocatively, without knowing exactly what the work is that you have to do.

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Oh, I need to write. So I am not hiding behind a finger. I am just living this daily challenge as it comes.

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The word is about, there’s something evolving,Whatever may come, the world keeps revolving…They say the next big thing is here,That the revolution’s near,But to me it seems quite clearThat’s it’s all just a little bit…

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Scoping starts with a question, from an individual, a team, or an organization, framing and setting boundaries

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Thinking about the future is different for each of us because every person has a different view of the future. “Futuring” is the process of exploring possible futures. It’s a way to gather information and…

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Becoming immune doesn’t mean avoiding or rejecting alien things. It’s the opposite, it means being completely immersed in them and developing an immune response. For those things we cannot avoid, reject or prevent to be…

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While trying to not get asleep I am writing whatever comes to my mind. Outside is hot, inside is fresh and nice. The bed is comfortable. I just need to remain focused. If I enjoy…

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I am writing this document on my mobile phone using an external keyboard. It’s quite comfortable, I am on my couch, the phone is inclined on a holder and I am well seated on my…

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Better face your doubts as soon as possible, as frequently as possible. Everything is worth a doubt. Learn to sail and navigate with the winds.

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Well, here I am, alone, still writing, and it’s day 233.

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I’ve just turned 18. I am an adult now. I am reliable and trustworthy. I can park Dad’s new car.

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When we think about relocating we’re forced to inventory our lives. We evaluate each object in our possession for utility. If we love to buy books and less to read them we would doubt about…

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It’s when I can leave you alone, doing your work undisturbed, knowing you will use the best of your knowledge and skills to pursue our common goal. It’s when you are aware of how the…

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So, a nice game, is the one of time-labeling people according to how late they usually are.

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I miss vane but intense celebrations.

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It requires a lot of time to work together, know each other, and have experience together: good and bad.

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The asymmetry between time and space follows an inverse gradient.

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I like the idea of the constant creative flow but the curatorship of Curatella is still missing

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Dishonesty can only harm everybody, but talking about your dishonesty makes you look stupid.

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iT hAppens.

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Reserve the needed time to fully document all parts and interactions.

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After having completed the third reading of the book ‘How To Take Smart notes I am challenging myself to start taking smarter notes.

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I’ve created CREAZEE to find external incentives in maintaining my daily writing habit. How can I improve it?

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A design principle to understand how a system works and how making specific choices generates scenarios and consequences.

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I can only look forward, farther, and plan, in advance, to develop the questions I am raising when improvising like this. It would be enough to read what I wrote so far.

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There are different audiences for your writing. Your present self trying to understand something new. Your future self to whom you want to transfer the knowledge you acquired today. Your future self needing to combine…

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Here is where I think, I am not just transcribing my thoughts, these are my thoughts.

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Permanent notes are a space to think, learn and ideate. There are perspectives in opening your brain to collective intelligence.

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The value of repeating the effort of imagining a specific scenario could help to develop your imagination skills

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I’m a problem solver. I’m especially fond of impossible problems. I’m the impossible problems solver, the Impossible problems solver. This is the mythical man I want to be.

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Or I could travel to the future when there is no pain, no violence, no need to work to live but pure energy pervading the universe.

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This happens when I am bored. Really bored.

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A final consideration on the creative exercise of Start, Stop, Continue.

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Meet people again, write my books, exercise, have more generative conversations, pursue my interests, doing interviews, reread what I wrote, make art, playing the bass, story about my experience.

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Continue to write daily. to take long walks to read every day, to track key events, to plan your time, to have meaningful conversations, to share your knowledge, to collaborate.

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Starting from scratch. Separating information. Reading later. Separating projects. Taking notes. Processing information inconsistently. Collecting information randomly. Complicating your life.

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Life is beautiful and can be lived careless of its flow or treasuring every moment that passes. Being present requires commitment.

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.So, I do want to write an essay, as well, and this is how I am setting it up.
How will you write your essay?

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No. The post When no is no appeared first on Massimo Curatella.

How much would I like to turn off the Internet intentionally to re-establish a healthier relationship with my brain?

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Today I used technology to be better, now and in the future.
And I am grateful for that.

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It’s the complex, intimate, and personal process of collecting and developing our thoughts to put them in a tangible form that humankind can decode.

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Discover the progress in my daily writing challenge—learnings, failures, considerations, plans, and also questions for you.

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You see, I still have the strength to make you laugh.
C’mon, take me as I am tonight.

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“I never force myself to do anything I don’t feel like. Whenever I am stuck, I do something else.” I have found a way to cure my eclecticism.

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Do you have any suggestions about finding a better solution to motivate my learning while sharing it with others?

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That’s the note of the day. A mental bookmark to get back to when I ask again this question: why is nobody reading me?

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The fun of this exercise shows up, evidently.

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I really love writing. Writing is my life. When I finally find the right moment to write I feel good. Really. Very good.

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Managing Your Knowledge. Everything is Designed, Design is Everything. Living a Creative Life. Writing Daily: a Transformational Practice.

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With a genuinely curious attitude, you might discover pathways to satisfy your inner desire to express your creativity and find the attention of other people.

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Free-flowing writing is flowing freely. Who am I to stop it? The author.

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Maximize the opportunity for connections by exposing ourselves to broad and diverse knowledge while intentionally observing

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By contrasting and comparing, we reveal the inner nature of the objects we are observing, facilitating the emerging of relationships.

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My challenge at the intersection of my 12 favorite problems. How to address all of them independently and simultaneously?

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Like a quasar sending colored cards about its death, rapid sparkles of pearls and diamonds echo in the dark forest.

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Once you have created your 100 ideas to write about and then list your 12 favorite problems, you should look for coherence between the two.

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Knowing gradations means recognizing more patterns, having a richer perception, and a richer capability to express yourself.

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I started from version 2, and I developed a couple of problems per article. I joined the six drafts into a 1’500-words essay.

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Creating and solving problems could take us busy forever. Let’s do it.

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How to use technology and creativity to improve the ecosystem’s health? Just a draft, for now.

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There is no planet B. We must contribute to the ecosystem’s health by building a more sustainable society. Design is a solution.

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Two essential qualities of human beings. How can we improve thinking and communication?

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Learning, Teaching, Education, Knowledge, and Culture. Health and Habit making

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This is hard, painful and I feel really uninspired.
I’ve learned my lesson, when I am in this mood I need to lower my ambitions.
So, I’ve taken the first two problems, I wrote one sentence to develop each, and I’ve attached the initial questions.

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I am iterating on the 12 Favorite Problems Technique. I am merging a first iteration and two drafts coming from my notes.

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Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, ‘How did he do it? He must be a genius!’

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By making a structured inquiry on a topic, you can integrate multiple points of view in a longer article.

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How would I feel if I stopped now? I am terrified I could never write again. In the end, I have not written daily for decades. How would it be like to write weekly?

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The “where” should be everywhere, where you add and retrieve information out of your PKB to write, think and create.

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If you understand the power of PKM, and if you have a flexible and powerful system, you always need it. You need it in every phase of your creative process.

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Personal Knowledge Management can benefit everybody. If you think, you need PKM.

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Use PKM to impact the World positively: observe, take notes of the many problems, and solve them. Share solutions to better futures.

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Identify the building blocks of your creativity, compose them in workflows and build a creative network of tools to generate ideas.

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Capture, organize, develop, and share knowledge to be a proper citizen of the 21st Century and maybe the 22nd.

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Learn how to improve in planning and building by comparing the intention against the execution.

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CREAZEE Daily Writing Challenge April 2021, a Retrospective.

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By talking to people, you practice being yourself, being the author or creator you are, and you will have chances to stand behind your creative choices.

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To create a habit, you have to feel a certain amount of pain, but it’s not lethal. It’s not the end of the world. And the more you insist, the more you try, the more the pain becomes a joy.

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Keep on writing daily to generate new ideas. Establish continuity, little by little, every day, to build up complexity.

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