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[caption id="attachment_6560" align="alignnone" width="620"] By Sonja Langford[/caption] It's debatable whether or not the eight-hour workday works for everyone – or even anyone – mostly because it's darn near impossible to plop down in front of a computer and just hit the productivity switch. For freelancers, it can be even more challenging, as the distractions of a home office, the internet, or, you know, a life, begin to slowly eat away at the time when you should be working.

Chances are, if you took an informal poll around the water cooler, bar, or coffee creamer stand, you’d meet at least one person grinding away at a day job, but passionate about a project on the side. And it’s easy to name the big side project success stories -- Amazon started in a garage!

This week, NPR reported on a study that found that the human brain, regardless of a person's perceived ability to keep a beat, can still keep time. The findings further underscored a long-running theory that music truly is a universal human language, as old as time and as thoroughly rooted in our brains as the need to breathe.

Typically, the only element of the creative process that the public sees is the outcome. We totally miss the essential and often rocky developments that bring a project to fruition.

[caption id="attachment_6499" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image via Flickr[/caption] Being a creative -- in whatever sense you may be, even if you choose not to use the adjective as a noun -- is deeply satisfying. Study after study has shown that job satisfaction and happiness among creatives tends to skew high, and that, conversely, creativity leads to happiness.

[caption id="attachment_6497" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Photo via Thomas Hawk.

[caption id="attachment_6470" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Madeline Trait on Pinterest.

As the weather heats up biohacker and CreativeLive instructor Dave Asprey wants you to eat some ice cream. That’s right, even health-conscious eaters can celebrate summer thanks to Dave’s “Get Some” ice cream recipe, which is both nutrient-dense and oh-so delicious.