The Anxiety-Curiosity Switch: How to Redirect Your Mental Energy for Creativity
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The Anxiety-Curiosity Switch: How to Redirect Your Mental Energy for Creativity
Ask yourself as many “what if” questions as you can. What if this were the first painting anyone saw in their life? What if I removed every adverb? What if I made all the loud parts quiet? Look for different polarities and see how they affect the piece.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Is there a way to cultivate curiosity? To start with, you want to avoid situations that suppress it. How much does the work you're currently doing engage your curiosity? If the answer is "not much," maybe you should change something.
paulgraham.com • How to Think for Yourself
here: Being curious means asking questions about why things work the way they do, and embracing unfamiliar situations or topics with a sense of wonder. Being observant means training yourself to see the details that most others often miss. Being fickle means capturing ideas without feeling the need to fully understand or analyze them in that moment
... See moreRohit Bhargava • Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future
"Curiosity can empower you or impede you. Being curious and focused is a powerful combination. I define this combination as unleashing your curiosity within the domain of a particular task: asking questions about how things work, exploring different lines of attack for solving the problem, reading ideas from outside domains while always l
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