AllTheDings

@mnufc Senior Writer | Hooker with a 💛 of gold | Amateur Haberdasher

[Sidelinr Sports @sidelinrsports]

🚨MICAH PARSONS TRADED TO THE PACKERS🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!

[AllTheDings @dreidinger]

How 'bout them Cowboys...willfully trading a generational talent to America's (actual) Team. LFG. #GoPackGo #NFL #NFLNews #MicahParsons

[Sidelinr Sports @sidelinrsports]

Jerry Jones might be the first confirmed owner with CTE

Micah Parsons is now a Green Bay Packer. Wild.

[Wayne Larrivee @waynelarrivee]

Nothing and no one lasts forever. But I was sure hoping Bob Uecker would be the exception to the rule. So sad to hear of his passing, condolences to his family but also to all of us who knew him and loved the sound track he provided to our summers. RIP Bob.

[AllTheDings @dreidinger]

@PulltabSports @BobbyFinnKnows @finja22 @Tlord I’m so happy this exists…

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Ya love to see it when you’re there to see it. #mnufc

[Maximiliano Bretos @MaxBretosSports]

Saturday night I got to broadcast @MNUFC 1st ever home playoff triumph in front of their fans @allianzfield.
Been in this biz longer than I care to mention, that was an all time highlight.
@MLS Fan culture for the win....

[AllTheDings @dreidinger]

It's a long time coming for our understated Finnish heartthrob #MNUFC #MLSAllStar
https://t.co/y6XDJRgBCC

[AllTheDings @dreidinger]

Sounds about right. #DebateNight

[Chuck Bass @ChuckFBass]

Trump vs Biden on Thursday is basically 2016 AFC South TNF game.

[AllTheDings @dreidinger]

@Ferd_Turgeson …except it’s a quote from after he was asked if he knew anyone on the Vikings roster. And when you consider both teams current situations side to side, duh.

[AllTheDings @dreidinger]

Nick Sirianni looks like he hasn’t slept in a decade. #ThursdayNightFootball #MINvsPHI #nfl

[AllTheDings @dreidinger]

@andygreder Some heroes don’t wear capes…or will tolerate having their boomerang and kiwis grabbed without their permission, especially in an office setting… #MNUFC #Legionofloons  #losloons

[AllTheDings @dreidinger]

Some heroes don’t wear capes…or will tolerate having their boomerang and kiwis grabbed without their permission, especially in an office setting… #MNUFC #Legionofloons #losloons

[Andy Greder @andygreder]

Quote: #MNUFC Michael Boxall on his first career red card vs. Puebla, which cost him Chicago Fire match in #LeaguesCup:

"It’s a quick reaction from me to what happened. ... I think as long as no one is out there trying to grab my dick, then I think I can play 90 minutes again."

[AllTheDings @dreidinger]

Some of my Finnest work… #MNUFC

[Minnesota United FC @MNUFC]

It's official.

@GovTimWalz has declared a Pukki Party.

Welcome to Finnesota 🇫🇮

[AllTheDings @dreidinger]

Ok, let’s not do this again next season…#Everton #EvertonFC

[Everton @Everton]

FT. YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! UTFT!!!!

🔵 1-0 🍒 #EVEBOU

[AllTheDings @dreidinger]

Get your GD coat on and get movin’!!! #EvertonFC

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Bongkhule. Freaking. Hlongwane. #MNUFC

[Minnesota United FC @MNUFC]

THE MOMENT.

#PORvMIN | #MNUFC

[AllTheDings @dreidinger]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! #mnufc

[Minnesota United FC @MNUFC]

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

BONGI WINS IT
BONGI WINS IT
BONGI WINS IT

#PORvMIN | #MNUFC

[AllTheDings @dreidinger]

Let that subconscious marinate a bit…#Writer

[Eddie Shleyner 🇺🇦 @VeryGoodCopy]

𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝗯?

One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite shows, 𝘔𝘢𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘯, is about creativity and productivity:

It opens with Don Draper, creative director, talking to his ad agency’s financial chief, Lane Pryce. Lane is complaining about the copywriters: they’re not being productive in the creative lounge. They’re napping, socializing, playing darts.

Don looks at him: “We do this better than you,” he says. “And part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive… 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦.”

𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁:

Creativity boils down to putting old things together in new ways, which is a two-step process:

𝟭/ get knowledge and experiences
𝟮/ make unexpected connections

But usually, you can’t force a connection. Usually, you need to 𝘤𝘰𝘢𝘹 it out by doing something unrelated, something distracting.

Like napping.
Like socializing.
Like playing darts.

These things 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮 unproductive, yeh, but they’re not.

Because while these things distract your conscious mind, your subconscious will continue working, incubating, processing your knowledge and experiences until a random sequence of synapses fires off in your frontal cortex:

And you have a moment of clarity.
And connect disparate things.
And then you blurt out:

“Hey, that’s interesting!”

And your colleague looks up and says, “What?”

And you lean back and say, “Well, what if…”

And then you’re off to the races.

“You’re often most creative," says artist Austin Kleon, "when you’re the least productive.”

Don Draper agrees: whether you work in copywriting or any other creative discipline, part of your job is not doing your job.

𝙮𝙚𝙝?

[AllTheDings @dreidinger]

@IKE_Packers @NFL @welcomeOVO Yessir.

[New York Giants @Giants]

sko𝑳

[AllTheDings @dreidinger]

Counting on it. #HappyNewYear2023