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Director Daniel Kwan: "Genius Emerges From the Collective"
- Scenius, which I think of as the power of community in creativity. None of us are successful on our own: who you surround yourself with matters, both in how they lift you and how you lift them.
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The great music scenes of our time had this ecology of talent. Motown, Seattle, Los Angeles, the list goes on. Creative competitiveness, imitation, idea expansion and support are key drivers in the advancement of a music scene. In Show your Work, Austin Kleon writes
“Scenius doesn’t take away from the achievements of those great individuals; i
... See morefrom Scenius: building a culture with permission to innovate by Steve Brophy
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- When I think of you, I think of community. You’re so devoted to uplifting the voices of others. Can you talk about this impulse in yourself?
What I'm devoted to is the idea that a brain is really the result of its connections to other brains. A life is really the result of its connection to other lives. So we’re the sum of our connections. Those co... See morefrom Rally A Posse: A Conversation With Austin Kleon by Jane Ratcliffe
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Imagination – that ‘ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise’ – needs diversity to feed it.
from From What Is to What If by Rob Hopkins
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- I am reminded of the closing remarks in Richard Tarnas’s epilogue to his classic text, The Passion of the Western Mind .
“I believe that the West's restless inner development and incessantly innovative masculine ordering of reality has been gradually leading, in an immensely long dialectical movement, toward a reconciliation with the lost feminine ... See morefrom Witch Envy by Jonathan Rowson
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Expressing oneself in the world and creativity are the same. It may not be possible to know who you are without somehow expressing it.”
Rick Rubin , The Creative Act (p. 182)from Join | Tiny Digital World Builders
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