Try something new, or don’t RunOnRails

September 10th, 2007 Posted in creativity

The coffee machine at work has 15 different variants of coffee-chocolate-milk. I always select cappuccino. I have only tried 4 variants (black coffee, chocolate cream, cappuccino and cafe o’lait). Why? I don’t know, I always drink this and it taste rather good - wait a minute, what if Wiener coffee is great? And I have never tried it?

In fact I drive the same way to work every day, eat the same breakfast, check the same websites for news, eat lunch - at the same time - at a five different places. I can go on but it gets to depressing. It feels like my life runs on rails (sorry for the resemblance to a popular web framework, I could not help it :-) ).

One great way to be creative is to try new things, I once read about a guy who always drove a different way to work each morning, after a while he had to drive back ways on one-way streets. That is creative.

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