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Scenius: building a culture with permission to innovate
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There’s a healthier way of thinking about creativity that the musician Brian Eno refers to as “scenius.” Under this model, great ideas are often birthed by a group of creative individuals—artists, curators, thinkers, theorists, and other tastemakers—who make up an “ecology of talent.” If you look back closely at history, many of the people who we t
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Brian Eno: I became (and still am) more and more convinced that the important changes in cultural history were actually the product of very large numbers of people and circumstances conspiring to make something new. I call this ‘scenius’ - it means ‘the intelligence and intuition of a whole cultural scene’. It is the communal form of the concept of... See more
Packy McCormick • Sc3nius
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Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or “scenes” can occasionally generate. His actual definition is: “Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the geni... See more
Kevin Kelly • Scenius, or Communal Genius
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Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or “scenes” can occasionally generate. His actual definition is: “Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the geni... See more
Kevin Kelly • Scenius, or Communal Genius
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In Eno’s words: “If genius is the creative intelligence of an individual, Scenius is the creative intelligence of a group.”
David Perell • Find Your Scenius - David Perell
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Here is Eno’s definition : “ Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the genius. ”
Nathalie Sejean • How come they all know each other?!
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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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