Posts Tagged ‘improvisation’

How to Break All the Rules

Rules, they say, are meant to be broken. Not all the time, of course -- we are, after all, trying to have a society here. But while rules help, most of the time, to create an orderly and well-regulated society, sometimes their lack of flexibility hinders our creativity, and thus our ability to solve the problems that confront us.

Months ago, I wrote a post about improvisation advising… Continue reading

May 26 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: creativity, improvisation, rule-breaking | 11 comments»

Improvise Like a Jazz Musician

Or: Everything I Need to Know About Productivity I learned from Charles Mingus You don't think of Charles Mingus' autobiography Beneath the Underdog as a productivity book, and it's not, really. Mingus was one of Jazz's great composers, as well as a great bass player. Plagued by depression, Mingus invested himself heavily in psychotherapy, and Beneath the Underdog is a kind of reflection on his life and music through… Continue reading

December 5 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: creativity, improvisation, jazz, Productivity | 45 comments»