29. Billy Oppenheimer - Attuned to Clues - Jackson Dahl
Creative work as “clue gathering”: noticing without judgment, collecting inspirations, and letting them marinate into projects.
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What's amazing about all these two is Rick didn't, at least as you tell the story, Rick didn't conclude anything from any of these clues when he observed them.
It's a, it's a sort of a noticing first and foremost, like none of these things are sort of necessarily, they need to be acted on or, or inherently going to like be made worthwhile.
It's
... See moreGrothendieck knew what he found interesting and productively confusing because he had spent three years observing his thought and tracing where it wanted to go. He was not at the mercy of the social world he entered; rather, he “used” it to “further his aims.” (I put things in quotation marks here because what he’s doing isn’t exactly this... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
The creative writing process as discovering core truths through openness to inspiration and synchronistic guidance from the universe
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And even I didn't know it was a core truth while I was writing. I would say to myself, is that true? That's an interesting way of putting it. Is that true? And they'd say, son of a bitch, that is true.
I remember talking about it all the time and thinking about it all the time while I was writing. It was a joy to sit down and be with that laptop
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