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Creativity and focus on the detail

Creativity and focus on the detail

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Creativity and focus on the detail

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- This next happiness tip is about two related things, creativity, and more specifically drawing or sketching. For some reason, we humans seem to be designed to be creative. Presumably, it's to do with the search for food or adapting to new environment. I don't know. But it's certainly something that we have within us. We feel great when we're making something. And also, we feel great when we finish it and there it is. We even feel great every time we see the finished work from then on. Creative activities can be anything that you like doing, maybe drawing or painting, maybe playing music, maybe writing poetry. I'm particularly fascinated by haikus, those tiny three-line Japanese poems which try to sum up an idea in the minimum form of just 17 syllables. Or it might be flower arranging, or garden design, or decorating your house, or any kind of DIY work, building a shed, an extension, even a whole house, maybe repairing or rebuilding a car or a motorcycle, or making pottery or…

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