Monday, January 5, 2015

Nurture Creativity: Use Online Time Wisely (Hunt for Ideas!)


In order to become an effective idea hunter,
one must be receptive to creative inspiration from unfamiliar or unusual sources
(Andy Boynton, The Idea Hunter)

Most of us spend online time for social networking, searching, reading content, e-mailing or communicating in general, visiting multi-media sites for music or video or both, online shopping, etc. Recently I visited TIME website and stumbled on an article. I thought it is interesting because in the article they include Apps that can count how many time (not necessary ‘wasted’) you spend on Facebook. It is safe and will not appear on your timeline. Mine, since 12th November 2008 until today, I spend only 3 days 18 hours 52 minutes and posted 14,718 things on my feed. On average 17 minutes per day. How about you? [Check it out: http://time.com/6107/how-much-time-have-you-wasted-on-facebook/]

Surely, Facebook or any other social media or the Internet is not that bad. What’s bad is when you addicted to online 24-7. What’s really bad is when you wasted your life online! What’s good is that you can use these tools for good. These tools, if you can use it wisely, can be your great source of ideas and to spark up your creativity. Basically, these are the thing I do when I’m online:

§  Downloaded audio sermons, audiobooks, talks and seminars
§  Watch video or listen to talks from YouTube, podcasts and websites (I recommend TED Talks, Google Talks, Intelligent2 and LearnOutLoud.com)
§  Read articles such as How Stuff Works, BBC and TED blog
§  Surf randomly (but not mindlessly). Who know, you might stumble to a cool website that may change your life!

How to use online time wisely? Here are my suggestions: 1) Intentionally, set time for online. You should be in control. It can be an hour in the morning, then an hour in the afternoon before lunch or mid-night before you go to sleep. Try not to go online, if possible, in the evening. Safe it for outdoor activities. 2) Set a limit. As for me, in regular time, I set at most 2-3 hours online. Depend on your job requires and working hours, set a limit (or simply take some time off once in a while). and 3) Use the time for ideas hunt. Find and gather as many ideas as possible, write it down on paper, steal it! and create your own new ideas – and if it useful, work on it.

Use online time wisely. Go for ideas hunt!
Lord, Give Us Today Our Daily Idea(s)

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