{"id":56,"date":"2018-12-13T04:39:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T04:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/?p=56"},"modified":"2018-12-13T04:39:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T04:39:41","slug":"blog-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/2018\/12\/13\/blog-7\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOG 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My greatest strengths usually are the things I enjoy and when writing that means, having an obsession with being creative. Creative writing has always been a passion of mine, I clearly remember being exposed to it for the first time through poetry. Invigorated with how it felt to; Put my thoughts into words, creatively into lines and having them tell a story. Use an artistic flow to have words come to life and dance on the page. Heighten senses and evoking emotions through a thoughtful reveal of ideas, was and still is an exhilarating experience. I feel inspired every time I can translate simple words into art and express myself in any creative way. A key that gives me this strength is a tendency towards abstract thinking, helping me find different perspectives and consistently creating unique vantage points onto experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creativity has a flow and waves like the ocean, with its own climates and weather. In order to make the best of it, I have found that creativity needs nurturing. This means caring for the health of your brain and body is fundamental. Proper rest and nutrition to keeps me sharp. Another strategy is reducing stress by all means with, better time management and choosing an environment where I can focus. The third strategy for me is practicing mindfulness. I feel it necessary to allow myself to be completely immersed in the experience and encourage ideas to flow naturally. An added trick up my sleeve is keeping a sense of humor. Finding something funny has a way of sparking my creativity and usually my go to, when I catching a case of writer\u2019s block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a creative writing style and tendency, writing scientific research papers can be difficult for me. The upcoming Species Profile assignment will be a challenge. On My This I Believe assignment (not a research paper) I received a mark of 71%. Setting myself a goal of reaching a higher mark on my Species Profile assignment means I will have improved upon my skills in this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My greatest strengths usually are the things I enjoy and when writing that means, having an obsession with being creative. Creative writing has always been a passion of mine, I clearly remember being exposed to it for the first time through poetry. Invigorated with how it felt to; Put my thoughts into words, creatively into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpflemingcollege.com\/iancook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}