Most people don’t give a lot of thought to their New Year’s resolutions. That’s why only 8% of resolutions last for the year, succeeding or not. Some give a decent amount of thought, but I doubt very many give it a trial run before committing. You can put reality checks into your plan to succeed at resolutions, as I do, and as I will share soon in a workbook, but there’s no reality check like reality of actually trying it out as humans are notoriously bad at our ability to predict the future, even when it’s our own. Doing trial runs with my resolutions is exactly what I’m doing this December with a handful of resolutions I am planning on committing to come January 1st, including this creative writing thing, and I want to share its value.
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The More Open Is Your Idea of Beauty, The More Beautiful Your World Will Be
In comparison to others, would you say you find more things in the world to be beautiful? Can you give some general examples to support to your answer?
Definition: Meta-procrastination, Compensatory Conviction, Zeigarnik Effect, Getting-into Time, Idea Doubt, Vuja De
Me in a 15 minute talk, essentially.
Meta-procrastination
(superior) procrastination where one creates activities for procrastination, then procrastinate in performing them
Compensatory conviction
Development of a passion for something that distracts you from your current serious uncertainty on what to do next
Zeigarnik effect
How we have a better memory for incomplete rather than complete tasks because you check off the latter to forget about it
Getting-into time
Time it takes you to get back into something from where you left off
Idea Doubt
Doubt that is energizing because it causes you to want to test, experiment, and refine, to get it right, knowing the first batch will almost always be crappy
Vuja De
Is when you look at something you’ve seen many times before and all of a sudden see it with fresh eyes
I Dream of 2D Printing
The kind like 3D printing, except where height and depth matters little, only a general thickness like paper. In fact, I dream of printing paper, into whatever shapes desired, rather than by the sheet that have to be cut into some shapes. Even size may only matter in one dimension if printed on a treadmill like surface like done for some 3D printing, constrained only by the width of the rolling surface.
And what would that 2D paper printing be used for?
Well, sewing patterns for one thing, to save paper waste between the pieces, as well as time to cut out the pieces. Crafts of all sorts, for another, from kirigami to frames to other intricate cut outs for activities like scrap booking, creative cards, and so on. Even blueprints where pieces would otherwise have to be cut out to rearrange for options in layouts, mixing and matching, etc. Imagine the possibilities of what is either not possible, or not feasible given the effort and/or resources required that would stop many from fulfilling their artistic ideas!
But doesn’t this technology exist?
Maybe. Hard to say. It seems a simple enough concept it should. Searching for terms with some form of “print” and “paper” won’t get you anything but the paper you print on, or the printers that print on that paper. Anything resembling a 2D printer I am imagining is really a 3D printer that prints out some plastic or rubber like sheet, rather than paper. The 2D sheets from 3D printers aren’t generally useful for all the things I’m thinking about.
And so I come back to my original idea…
And I dream of 2D printing.
Hoping someone will be able to fulfill that dream.
What Will They Rebuild at Notre Dame?
As you probably have heard by now, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was partially badly destroyed in a fire. Some parts were saved, like the Towers. Others were not.
For the parts destroyed, what will they rebuild there?
Will they go old school and build a replica of what was there? It wouldn’t be authentic.
Will they build something new that probably wouldn’t go well with the old towers?
Will they build something still of the cathedral architecture scheme, just a tad more modern so as to avoid the authentic comparisons, but still maintain the gist of it?
Will they dare take the entire thing down and rebuild something new all together?
What will they rebuild at Notre Dame?
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