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Creative by Default
- The basic idea of a silent retreat is to see how quiet the mind can get when you stop feeding it entertainment, conversation, and daydreams. Instead, you notice what’s happening inside you and around you, and come back to that when you get distracted.
from Where There's Stress, There's a Story by David Cain
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- But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that wide empty space that ideas emerge. Long runs, hot showers, commutes that don’t involve harried Slack messages and listening to podcasts at 2x speed. Sitting at the edge of a dock, listening to the o... See more
from the scenic route by Jasmine Sun
- Your brain works best when you are not instructing it on what to do. A lot of creative work is really just sitting around
from Daniel Vassallo on Applied Antifragility – Visión Periférica Podcast • Podcast Notes by Daniel Vassallo
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