My last words to you if I must die tomorrow 031:

Limitation is a powerful switch that enables your true creative capacity. Limitations could be rules, could be some type of constrains, but one sure thing is that, just like the word itself, limitations give you short term obstacles, headaches to test your will. Randy Pausch, author of his book The Last Lecture explained this concept the clearest:

"Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. They are there to stop the people who don’t want something badly enough. They are there to keep out the other people."

Some examples of making creativity live under limitations: Classical Chinese poets followed strict rules such as symmetrical patterns, number of words, and more restrictions; however Chinese poets also utilized these limitations to create epic pieces with just a few words with few lines. My friend Ruwando built his very own Cardboard City to entertain himself at his parent's basement when he was little because he did not want his parents to spend fortune on new toys. Creativity is an internal power, that eventually overpowers everything else that are external, like limitations.

Click to watch Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture

Mic
12/22'11

My last words to you if I must die tomorrow 030:

Clean your house, even if cleaning probably is not the most exciting activities on your list. Make your environment so clean that you would hesitate to create any mess, I remember my high school teacher said something like this: "Few things in life define a person: handwriting, words, money handling, and domestic cleanliness." Some people pay extra details to certain things just to see how you treat your life. It is quite common that employers look at things like how an employee takes care of his/her car, table manners, even tiny things like drying hands after using the bathroom. You will be surprised how much little things can passively explain a person.

Mic
12/21'11