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Making time for creativity

Baz
Oct 13, 2017
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Making time for creativity

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I like to think that my job is quite a creative one. Yeah, computers are dull robot machines that aren't capable of intelligent thought (well, not yet, anyway). But the act of programming that computer - telling it (or increasingly, nowadays, teaching it) how to perform tasks that are useful to human beings - is a very creative endeavour.

Unfortunately, creativity is all too often elusive.

The pressure of work, the client emergency, fire-fighting, shopping, your boiler exploding - they all get in the way.

So you have to make time for it.

I now start earlier and work later - but keep a couple of hours in the middle of the day just to myself. Walk the dog, have a slow lunch, sit around. The extra space makes all the difference and when I go back to work in the afternoon, I find I get more done - and the solutions I come up with are better and slicker.

Because, if it's important, you have to make the time for it.

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