🌻 audience of one
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🌻 audience of one
our minds don’t have the processing power to take in all the information surrounding us. Our senses would be overwhelmed by light, color, sound, and smell. We would not be able to distinguish one object from another. To navigate our way through this immense world of data, we learn early in life to focus on information that appears essential or of
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onbeing.orgI wanted an audience, but I also knew that having the wrong audience would be worse than having no audience, because they'd constrain me with their expectations, forcing me to focus on one tiny niche of my worldview at the expense of everything else, until I became a parody of myself.
It was clear to me that the only way to resist becoming what... See more
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Gurwinder • The Perils of Audience Capture
The discussion explores true creativity: legitimizing personal joys and finding significance independently, rather than outsourcing taste to societal norms.
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So if you say to somebody, I'm going to a gallery and I'm going to look at some pictures and I'm going to go, oh, that's very, you know, it's a noble thing to do. If you say, I'm going to take a flight and on the flight, I'm going to open the window and I'm going to look at the clouds and I'm going to really delight in them and I'm going to
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