“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell!”

- Harry S. Truman

“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

- Francesca Reigler

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How do others define designers’ core competencies? It depends. Chris Conley, who teaches at the Institute of Design in Chicago, has presented seven competencies he believes are at the core of design. They are:

• The ability to understand the context or circumstances of a design problem and frame them in an insightful way
• The ability to work at a level of abstraction appropriate to the situation at hand
• The ability to model and visualize solutions even with imperfect information
• An approach to problem solving that involves the simultaneous creation and evaluation of multiple alternatives
• An ability to add or maintain value as pieces are integrated into a whole
• An ability to establish purposeful relationships among elements of a solution and between the solution and its context
• An ability to use formto embody ideas and to communicate their value

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This is the sleep-version of Learning Something New.

• Salvador Dalí would doze in his chair, holding a spoon above a pan. When he fell asleep, the spoon would drop and the clatter would wake him. These catnaps sustained him for many years, though perhaps they may explain the hallucinogenic aspect of much of his work
• The inventor Nikola Tesla claimed to need only three hours of sleep, and often missed those if engrossed in a project. He wrote of his work: “Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything”
• The American President Calvin Coolidge would sleep eight hours at night and usually took a three-hour nap in the afternoon. Apparently, his first act after inauguration was to take a nap in the White House
• Albert Einstein slept ten hours a night, although if he were busy he would take 11. He thought dreams allowed him to think more clearly
• William Gladstone was said to be able to sleep at will. This gift was also enjoyed by Napoleon
• The French scientist Abraham de Moivre enjoyed sleeping up to 20 hours a day in his old age.
• Gordon Brown is notorious among colleagues for working late. Last month it was reported that Tessa Jowell and Peter Mandelson had been charged with the task of ensuring that he got more shuteye.

“Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.”

- John Lennon