為什麼來西班牙念書? 改變視角
不論是我看這個世界 還是這個世界看我
出國前,懵懵懂懂地,想要探索台灣與美國之外不同的文化
用MBA的角度, 探索歐洲這個充滿故事,藝術,神祕的地方
在台灣的10幾年,我懂得如何被別人看到
不外乎是功課好,長得美,英文溜, 出國多,敢表達,反應快
來歐洲後,所有Criteria- “功課好,長得美,英文溜, 出國多,敢表達,反應快”
在不同的時空及人群中 全部重新洗牌
所有在台灣被別人看到的特質 在這裡全失靈
我在歐洲重新build-up我看待自己的角度,欣賞別人的角度,以及看待別人的角度
有幽默感, 對某種藝術/音樂執著, 平常話不多但一出手就是深度評論
擁有這些特質的同學, 我特別容易看到他(她)們的光
After all, 在這邊比誰英文好, 誰出國經驗多,誰曾在IBD或consulting工作年薪多少
簡直是荒唐阿
“比較”要放在同一標準下 才能分出高下
如果同一標準不存在, 反而各憑本事, 活出”我自己”的特質才是王道
這需要好多好多的self-awareness和自我對話就是了
2010年2月8日 星期一
2010年2月7日 星期日
2010年1月20日 星期三
Barcelona Reconnection
這週因為朋友的拜訪, 有了Barcelona reconnection的主題
昨天參觀了久違的CASA MILA,見識到高第建築背後他對大自然的觀察力與獨到見解, 以及每一件作品背後的深度思維
今晚到Teatre Poliorama欣賞"Flamenco para Traviata", 由Flamenco詮釋義大利歌劇"茶花女"
演出最後舞蹈唯美與悲傷情感讓我不禁流下眼淚
Flamenco舞者內心深層的情感, 搭配芭蕾,花,說書人的美聲,木吉他與另類樂器讓傳統與現代音樂性互相輝映
腳步與馬啼聲的節奏搭配, 彷彿是一場精采的爵士樂
這是我至目前為止,看過最棒的Flamenco跨界演譯
Tarot Bar是今晚另一絕響
她說,我是一個會一次worry很多事情的人,導致在行動的時候沒有think through
建議我一次想一件事,完成眼前挑戰,再去想下一件事情
我不相信自己的Capacity,對自己不夠有信心...其實我是個充滿能量的人
Be open, always studying (learning), 會讓我的人生更好
未來Professional path會很棒,it's good to go for the art industry.但須要study more!
是一個有創業特質的人, independent, 身邊有很多人能consult,但最後覺得靠自己解決問題
生日過後會有很大的轉變
Tonight is worth noting down...
昨天參觀了久違的CASA MILA,見識到高第建築背後他對大自然的觀察力與獨到見解, 以及每一件作品背後的深度思維
今晚到Teatre Poliorama欣賞"Flamenco para Traviata", 由Flamenco詮釋義大利歌劇"茶花女"
演出最後舞蹈唯美與悲傷情感讓我不禁流下眼淚
Flamenco舞者內心深層的情感, 搭配芭蕾,花,說書人的美聲,木吉他與另類樂器讓傳統與現代音樂性互相輝映
腳步與馬啼聲的節奏搭配, 彷彿是一場精采的爵士樂
這是我至目前為止,看過最棒的Flamenco跨界演譯
Tarot Bar是今晚另一絕響
她說,我是一個會一次worry很多事情的人,導致在行動的時候沒有think through
建議我一次想一件事,完成眼前挑戰,再去想下一件事情
我不相信自己的Capacity,對自己不夠有信心...其實我是個充滿能量的人
Be open, always studying (learning), 會讓我的人生更好
未來Professional path會很棒,it's good to go for the art industry.但須要study more!
是一個有創業特質的人, independent, 身邊有很多人能consult,但最後覺得靠自己解決問題
生日過後會有很大的轉變
Tonight is worth noting down...
2009年12月28日 星期一
Excerpt from "Everyday Creativity"
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200910/everyday-creativity
You can simply get to know your personal problem-solving style—everybody shines at different stages of the process; understanding where you fit in gives you a big advantage. And perhaps most important is adjusting your overall attitude toward life—approach your experiences with an open mind and cultivate the belief that possibilities and solutions are always within reach, and you'll be equipped to handle any challenge with flair.
The first step to increasing your creativity quotient is believing you can. Even if no one has ever assigned the adjective "original" to anything you have ever done, you must acknowledge that you have inventive powers. Don't think about making something from nothing or exposing your deepest feelings—just acknowledge that you can solve problems better if you approach them with a different mind-set.
When psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied eminent people, he found that they held almost contradictory impulses and qualities within: a desire for solitude but also a need for social stimulation; superior knowledge on a subject but also a childlike naïveté. These qualities seemed to fuel their ability to come up with great ideas and their ability to execute them—quite a combination. Exploring the less-prominent parts of your personality could activate the same yin-yang nature found in creative geniuses. If you're usually a busy bee, slow down and explore your lazy side. If you're very girly, dress like a tomboy.
"People are convinced they need to become more disciplined, but when you are passionate, you don't need to cultivate discipline; it follows naturally."
Stumped? Get out the eraser board: Visual thinking can yield more initial ideas than written lists, says Markman. "It's often easier to sketch relationships between concepts than to describe them. You can use arrows and boxes to say things that would be difficult to put into words." And since many different areas of the brain are involved in vision, sketching essentially calls in more brainpower to fuel your abstract-thinking abilities.
Just because a solution is orthodox doesn't mean it's not excellent. Take one of the winning teams in Seelig's challenge to earn cash over a weekend with just $5 of seed money: The students were told to make as much as they could and to report back to the class on Monday in a quick presentation. A sharp observation of their college town yielded one team's plan to make reservations at popular restaurants and later sell them to hungry parties waiting in lines. The enterprise raked in $200. (And it's perfectly legal.)
One team generated much more—$650—by turning the problem inside out. "Their insight was that their most precious resource was their three-minute presentation time on Monday," Seelig reports. "They decided to sell it to a company that wanted to recruit the students in the class. The team created a three-minute 'commercial' for the company and showed it to the rest of the students during their allotted three minutes. They recognized that they had a fabulously valuable asset just waiting to be mined."
"Personal problems usually result from people having mismatched expectations of each other," says Robert Root-Bernstein. "Imagine yourself in the shoes of the person with whom you are having problems. Try to imagine why they respond to you the way they do. Look for patterns of behavior that solve or avoid the problem you are having. Playact the new behaviors in your mind, and try to select the best ones." The attitude shift alone, from "Oh God, we're fighting about this again?" to "What's a new way to handle this argument that keeps being replayed?," is in itself calming and therapeutic.
Creativity provides opportunities for self-actualization. "It makes you more resilient, more vividly in the moment, and, at the same time, more connected to the world," Richards says.
One Bright Day
Here are some tested tips for injecting powers ofinnovation into your routine.
Wake 'n' Write: Creativity guru Julia Cameron swears by free writing (no self-censoring) until you fill three pages. Get intrusive worries out and productive ideas flowing.
Relationship Shake-Up: Practice creative loving: If your partner annoys or upsets you, react the opposite way you usually do. You might be pleasantly surprised with the result.
Disrupt the Daily Grind: Jolt your brain out of automatic pilot by taking a new route to work.
Don't Compete, Collaborate: Team up with a coworker who has complementary skills: If you're a detail-oriented person, find a big-picture partner, or vice versa.
Daydream in Long Distance: Psychologically distant thoughts spur creativity. Think about designing a new product in Bali and your perceptual abilities will soar.
You can simply get to know your personal problem-solving style—everybody shines at different stages of the process; understanding where you fit in gives you a big advantage. And perhaps most important is adjusting your overall attitude toward life—approach your experiences with an open mind and cultivate the belief that possibilities and solutions are always within reach, and you'll be equipped to handle any challenge with flair.
The first step to increasing your creativity quotient is believing you can. Even if no one has ever assigned the adjective "original" to anything you have ever done, you must acknowledge that you have inventive powers. Don't think about making something from nothing or exposing your deepest feelings—just acknowledge that you can solve problems better if you approach them with a different mind-set.
When psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied eminent people, he found that they held almost contradictory impulses and qualities within: a desire for solitude but also a need for social stimulation; superior knowledge on a subject but also a childlike naïveté. These qualities seemed to fuel their ability to come up with great ideas and their ability to execute them—quite a combination. Exploring the less-prominent parts of your personality could activate the same yin-yang nature found in creative geniuses. If you're usually a busy bee, slow down and explore your lazy side. If you're very girly, dress like a tomboy.
"People are convinced they need to become more disciplined, but when you are passionate, you don't need to cultivate discipline; it follows naturally."
Stumped? Get out the eraser board: Visual thinking can yield more initial ideas than written lists, says Markman. "It's often easier to sketch relationships between concepts than to describe them. You can use arrows and boxes to say things that would be difficult to put into words." And since many different areas of the brain are involved in vision, sketching essentially calls in more brainpower to fuel your abstract-thinking abilities.
Just because a solution is orthodox doesn't mean it's not excellent. Take one of the winning teams in Seelig's challenge to earn cash over a weekend with just $5 of seed money: The students were told to make as much as they could and to report back to the class on Monday in a quick presentation. A sharp observation of their college town yielded one team's plan to make reservations at popular restaurants and later sell them to hungry parties waiting in lines. The enterprise raked in $200. (And it's perfectly legal.)
One team generated much more—$650—by turning the problem inside out. "Their insight was that their most precious resource was their three-minute presentation time on Monday," Seelig reports. "They decided to sell it to a company that wanted to recruit the students in the class. The team created a three-minute 'commercial' for the company and showed it to the rest of the students during their allotted three minutes. They recognized that they had a fabulously valuable asset just waiting to be mined."
"Personal problems usually result from people having mismatched expectations of each other," says Robert Root-Bernstein. "Imagine yourself in the shoes of the person with whom you are having problems. Try to imagine why they respond to you the way they do. Look for patterns of behavior that solve or avoid the problem you are having. Playact the new behaviors in your mind, and try to select the best ones." The attitude shift alone, from "Oh God, we're fighting about this again?" to "What's a new way to handle this argument that keeps being replayed?," is in itself calming and therapeutic.
Creativity provides opportunities for self-actualization. "It makes you more resilient, more vividly in the moment, and, at the same time, more connected to the world," Richards says.
One Bright Day
Here are some tested tips for injecting powers ofinnovation into your routine.
Wake 'n' Write: Creativity guru Julia Cameron swears by free writing (no self-censoring) until you fill three pages. Get intrusive worries out and productive ideas flowing.
Relationship Shake-Up: Practice creative loving: If your partner annoys or upsets you, react the opposite way you usually do. You might be pleasantly surprised with the result.
Disrupt the Daily Grind: Jolt your brain out of automatic pilot by taking a new route to work.
Don't Compete, Collaborate: Team up with a coworker who has complementary skills: If you're a detail-oriented person, find a big-picture partner, or vice versa.
Daydream in Long Distance: Psychologically distant thoughts spur creativity. Think about designing a new product in Bali and your perceptual abilities will soar.
2009年12月18日 星期五
2009年12月8日 星期二
Good words from HBR
From Harvard Business Review:
Why Business Leaders Should Act More like Artists
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/maeda/2009/12/why-business-leaders-should-ac.html?cm_mmc=npv-_-WEEKLY_HOTLIST-_-DEC_2009-_-HOTLIST1207
artists are much like the kind of geeks I grew up with at MIT — passionately focused on their work with little regard to their own physical or financial circumstance, and often more comfortable working as a lone constructor instead of as a collaborative player on a larger team. So when I observed RISD students exhibiting the classic "lone wolf" traits of this kind of "creative geek," my mental model was confirmed. But when I recently spoke with two RISD textile entrepreneurs in Chicago about this stereotype, my mind fortunately re-opened.
The three aha's I received from my conversation with partners Robert Segal and Alicia Rosauer were:
Artists constantly collaborate. The example given was the common occurrence of an exhibition with multiple artists showing together, or the so-called "group show." Even in the context of a solo show, the artist works with the gallery owner, the curator, the framers, the installers, the lighting person, the publicist to bring their vision to life. Every exhibition is a collaboration to the nth degree.
Artists are talented communicators. The whole point of a work of art is to communicate something — a thought, an idea, a feeling, a vision. More explicitly, the artist frequently gives a talk to explain the thought process behind the artwork. Engaging the audience in a meaningful, expansive dialogue is often critical to the exhibition's success.
Artists learn how to learn together. Perhaps the reason why artists collaborate and socialize so well is that they learn in the studio model — ten or more students in the same room for hours on end. Bonded together in a personal space of intimate self-expression, they come into their own through the familial ties of the studio setting. When interviewed recently about the differences in her education at Brown and at RISD, one student who is getting a dual degree from both institutions said, "At RISD there's a lot of learning from your peers. Brown (in the classes I've taken so far anyway) is about listening and note-taking in class."
Why Business Leaders Should Act More like Artists
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/maeda/2009/12/why-business-leaders-should-ac.html?cm_mmc=npv-_-WEEKLY_HOTLIST-_-DEC_2009-_-HOTLIST1207
artists are much like the kind of geeks I grew up with at MIT — passionately focused on their work with little regard to their own physical or financial circumstance, and often more comfortable working as a lone constructor instead of as a collaborative player on a larger team. So when I observed RISD students exhibiting the classic "lone wolf" traits of this kind of "creative geek," my mental model was confirmed. But when I recently spoke with two RISD textile entrepreneurs in Chicago about this stereotype, my mind fortunately re-opened.
The three aha's I received from my conversation with partners Robert Segal and Alicia Rosauer were:
Artists constantly collaborate. The example given was the common occurrence of an exhibition with multiple artists showing together, or the so-called "group show." Even in the context of a solo show, the artist works with the gallery owner, the curator, the framers, the installers, the lighting person, the publicist to bring their vision to life. Every exhibition is a collaboration to the nth degree.
Artists are talented communicators. The whole point of a work of art is to communicate something — a thought, an idea, a feeling, a vision. More explicitly, the artist frequently gives a talk to explain the thought process behind the artwork. Engaging the audience in a meaningful, expansive dialogue is often critical to the exhibition's success.
Artists learn how to learn together. Perhaps the reason why artists collaborate and socialize so well is that they learn in the studio model — ten or more students in the same room for hours on end. Bonded together in a personal space of intimate self-expression, they come into their own through the familial ties of the studio setting. When interviewed recently about the differences in her education at Brown and at RISD, one student who is getting a dual degree from both institutions said, "At RISD there's a lot of learning from your peers. Brown (in the classes I've taken so far anyway) is about listening and note-taking in class."
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