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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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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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Do not confuse education with learning: education is done to you; Learning happens in your brain. We need more learning and less education.

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When you are so lucky to have absolutely nothing to do. Just enjoy it.

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We need to force us to reserve some time to close our thinking applications and saving the open thoughts.

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Why do I write, facilitate, design, and build things? To feel alive.

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How can I make the activity of being curious about the future, not scary? How can I enjoy the process of imagining futures?

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To be more effective in executing a task, consider splitting it into three parts: preparation, execution, conclusion.

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Any time is a good time to write. Take the tiniest piece of a concept and write about it.

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The articles I wrote this week.

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Alcohol is bad for health. Prove me wrong and I’ll invite you for a drink.

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I don’t like the end of stories. Why shall I interrupt being transported in another world and another time?

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Writing contributes to making you more self-aware and better equipped to make sense of your experiences. It can be a great tool to research the causes of your feelings.

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Avoid leading your team to confusion: write down your problem and illustrate a vision, a strategy, and a plan to solve it.

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Start now by doing a little thing, and keep on doing it, every day. You’ll reach the stars without even realizing it.

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Planning is an activity bringing the future to the present. You cannot plan to be creative but to foster the conditions for you to be creative.

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Write to remember, to evolve, to focus, to explain, to think better, to learn, to change, to keep track. Writing makes you a better human being.

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Review your spontaneous and unfiltered writing to extract exciting ideas and concepts to create a final draft to be published.

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Disconnect with your surroundings to enter into deep communication with your inner voice. A writing practice close to meditation promises wonders.

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Write every day, feel the pain of the struggle, do it for several days. You will be able to write well even if you feel exhausted.

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Letter to my future self. Thoughts and questions about the CREAZEE Challenge and the forming community.

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Constraints can help you focus on your creative work. But don’t use them as an end when their purpose is to be a means.

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So you want to be part of a group of people building a habit to write daily. Well, there are rules to follow. More or less.

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It seems like an eon ago I was struggling to launch my first online writing challenge. It was only 4 days ago.

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Daily writing means writing every day. You need to write, especially when you have no will to do it. Like today.

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An exercise in ideation. My list of ideas, topics, and themes to get inspiration from when I want to write a new article.

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I am Max. Massimo Curatella if you want the full name. Presenting myself has always been a problem.

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When you recognize fear, you can manage it. Fear means you are alive, and you are living exciting moments.

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And you should build a habit to write every day.

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You should always be working on a dozen of your favorite problems. What are yours?

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This week has been hard. Heavy work. Heavy creativity. I am almost done with defining the official launch date for CREAZEE. And I’ve been writing every day.

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Change your attitude towards what you want and what you can create by exercising your creativity. Be CREAZEE!

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If you want to become a better learner and give a higher value to your experiences, keep track of what you have learned daily.

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I have serious problems in finding the motivation and the time to study properly. Especially about what is supposed to be for me solid acquired knowledge.

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Free-flowing writing, if you’re brave, is the only thing you can do when it’s almost time to sleep.

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In an HCD process, a Customer Journey is a tool to learn about our users’ potential and intentional experience.

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You need to respect more yourself. Respect the hard work you have done. Don’t ruin it.

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Launching a CREAZEE project, build your habit of writing daily with a facilitator and a group of peers.

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What was the most critical event determining my 117 daily articles written and published in a row? Starting.

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There is a strong parallel between the characteristics and the influences of physical places on our lives and what worlds of information living in immaterial digital existences are having on them.

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Challenge yourself to build a daily writing habit. Here is the alpha version draft outline. Let’s learn together.

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Get out of the office, put down your phone and see if you can do some practical work in your field, you’ll have immense benefits.

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Ask closed questions to have quick confirmation without provoking further discussion. Ask open questions to explore, learn and facilitate richer conversations.

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On top of the continuity, you need to create valuable content. When is the right time to assess what you have written?

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