Agalia Tan
- Imagine what you could accomplish if you weren't focused on being right all the time.
from Brain Food: Necessary Virtues
linking back to courage!
- Nobody performs well when stretched in a half dozen directions
from 3-2-1: When to be patient, why we procrastinate, and the importance of early attempts
- As individuals, if we want to be creative, we need to give ourselves space to play and experiment without a set agenda. Amos Tversky famously said that the secret to doing good work is being a little unemployed so you always have hours in the day to waste as you wish. During that wasted time, you’ll likely have your best, most creative ideas.
from “Jootsing”: The Key to Creativity
- If we set out to ask a question and rush to answer it, we haven't allowed the question to hang suspended over the void, We haven't listened.
Open-endedness creates the space for a response to come. Let's call this space a "pause." The pause is not only the secret of knowing yourself, it is the secret of all healing. Within the pause, the response fi... See more