[Jewelry making - Article 00064] - Re: [Orchid] Concentration and productivity

[Len and Judy Bjorkman]

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>     Here's a funny thing about freeing up the creative brain, for me.
>     I wonder who else is like this. I like to "watch" tv or at least
>     listen to NPR while I work. I've been that way all my life
>     (puzzled the heck out of my mother). My interpretation is that I
>     have to give the left brain something to do so my right brain can
>     work without interference. I may enjoy the program, but I will
>     scarcely remember it later. 

    Yes, Noel, there are others something like this.  I watch TV and
    listen to NPR while doing all sorts of things (like, washing dishes,
    and doing the less creative things that one must do in
    jewelrymaking).  I relate it partly to the fact that those kinds of
    things must be  done but are really boring!  To avoid frustration, I
    like to do more than one thing at a time.  I like our portable phone
    because I can listen interminably and get a lot of other stuff done!
     [Yes, I can also tell people that I have to hang up.....] 

    When I go to meetings which I am  not leading, I  often take wire to
    make beads with, or paper to  cut into designs.   It keeps me  from
    participating too much and from being bored.  If the 
    meeting/lecture is really  interesting, or if I'm  too tired, I just
    don't get any artwork done. 

    When  I was writing my Masters thesis (Metals and Metalworkers in
    the Ancient Near East),  I used to play three records [this was in
    the late '60s]  over and over and over:  Simon and Garfunkel (Sounds
    of Silence), French  harp music,  and honky-tonk piano.  This  was
    somehow satisfying.  I found  that playing the usual  classical
    music  which I love tapped into a part of the brain  which I was
    using to write with, so I couldn't  listen to that. 

Other tales of the mind?
Judy Bjorkman

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