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Ideas are Alive and You are Dead
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I saw this incident as a rare and glittering piece of evidence that all my most outlandish beliefs about creativity might actually be true—that ideas are alive, that ideas do seek the most available human collaborator, that ideas do have a conscious will, that ideas do move from soul to soul, that ideas will always try to seek the swiftest and most
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
I saw this incident as a rare and glittering piece of evidence that all my most outlandish beliefs about creativity might actually be true—that ideas are alive, that ideas do seek the most available human collaborator, that ideas do have a conscious will, that ideas do move from soul to soul, that ideas will always try to seek the swiftest and most
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Ideas are fascinators that sparkle and dangle in front of the creator, distracting an eager audience from the person behind the curtain. Submitting to the tyranny of ideas gives us the freedom to explore who we are apart from our public reputations. If ideas are living entities that exist separately from our selves, what remains of us?
Nadia Asparouhova • The tyranny of ideas
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Do ideas have agency?
Do they crave to be shared?
To be reproduced, like humans?
And if ideas have agency, do stories?
Do we tell stories, or do stories tell us?
Do we make sounds, or do sounds make us?
Does it matter?
Probably not.
Either way, our job is simply to listen.
And in listening, pay attention, be present, and perhaps create something wonderful... See more
Do they crave to be shared?
To be reproduced, like humans?
And if ideas have agency, do stories?
Do we tell stories, or do stories tell us?
Do we make sounds, or do sounds make us?
Does it matter?
Probably not.
Either way, our job is simply to listen.
And in listening, pay attention, be present, and perhaps create something wonderful... See more
How the sounds of a calculator ended up on our website
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that ideas are alive, that ideas do seek the most available human collaborator, that ideas do have a conscious will, that ideas do move from soul to soul, that ideas will always try to seek the swiftest and most efficient conduit to the earth (just as lightning does). Furthermore, I was now inclined to believe that ideas also have wit, because what
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
Ideas are a disembodied, energetic life-form.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
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