Chris Johnston

I think I could probably blog about something from Kathy Seirra 365 days a year. The amount of good ideas and excellent content coming out of this one lady is incredible. And once again, she has another article on her site that bears mentioning. In this one, she is talking about how to Blow your own mind.

By this she means trying new things. New things can be little things like changing the bulb in your office lamp to a red one or moving the location of where you store paper clips to big things like going on an adventure vacation instead of to the cottage. The main point behind this is that in order for us to exercise our brains, we need to do things that blow away our brains. That makes our brain break out of its routine and force it to re-examine the world from a different perspective.

I like this. One example that she gives is turning photographs upside down. When I was in photograpnhy school this was a trick that we did all the time. It forces the brain to disassociate the graphical elements in the photo from what the photo is representing. Instead of seeing an office building, you are suddenly able to see the lamp post and the hydro lines that your brain removed when you first created the image.

Now to go move those paper clips.