Technology & Innovation — July 7, 2012

Finding Inspiration: What Do You Do When You’re Uninspired?

Searching for a job is almost inevitably stressful, but it can also be mentally draining: worrying about how you’ll pay the rent or whether the wording on your resume will make you more attractive to an employer also has a way of leaving you feeling uncreative. The advice from this week’s Summer School experts was about how to stay active and engaged in the world even when you’re not getting a paycheck.

So what do you do when your creative batteries need recharging?

Take the poll, then find out what other Big Think readers are saying. Tell us: what is your favorite creative activity? Do you disagree with all of these options? Want to share a completely different bit of career wisdom? Have at it in the comments thread below…

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Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

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The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

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