How To Be More Creative: Chocolate and Wine
You know when you're growing up and becoming more mature when reading wine blogs or chocolate blogs sounds more appealing than reading celebrity blogs. But then again, maybe I've just become downright geeky.
The curious cat and eternal philosopher in me wanted to know if there was a correlation between drinking wine and creativity, so I did a search...and discovered that it is a myth.
One bead store here in San Diego offers chocolate chip cookies to its customers as they shop for beads and one of the ladies who works there told me that chocolate stimulates your creativity. I did a search and couldn't find any information or study that would lead me to believe that this is true. Me thinks that a person just becomes more creative because you become more relaxed and happy as you eat chocolate or wine, thus opening up the creative doors in the mind for the juices to just flow.
Ok, so maybe wine and chocolate isn't your thing...Check out this post over at Here to Create that offers tips on how to be more creative.
Comments
An excellent take on wine and creativity! Don't forget Chas. Baudelaire's great poem, Get Drunk:
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters;
that's our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time's
horrible burden one which breaks your shoulders and bows
you down, you must get drunk without cease.
But with what?
With wine, poetry, or virtue
as you choose.
But get drunk.
And if, at some time, on steps of a palace,
in the green grass of a ditch,
in the bleak solitude of your room,
you are waking and the drunkenness has already abated,
ask the wind, the wave, the stars, the clock,
all that which flees,
all that which groans,
all that which rolls,
all that which sings,
all that which speaks,
ask them, what time it is;
and the wind, the wave, the stars, the birds, and the clock,
they will all reply:
"It is time to get drunk!
So that you may not be the martyred slaves of Time,
get drunk, get drunk,
and never pause for rest!
With wine, poetry, or virtue,
as you choose!"
And thanks for dropping by Vinapedia!
M2
Posted by: M2 | December 5, 2007 02:18 PM