conversational creativity

creativity is but an unfolding conversation

Only dead things are certain. Everything that is alive dances in different degrees of uncertainty.

from laura cincera on twitter - tweet

The late eighteenth-century Hasidic master Rebbe Nachman of Breslov teaches us, “If you want to return to God you must make yourself into a new creation. You can do this with a sigh.”9

Adina Allen • The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom

Agnes Callard • Tweet

Great conversations give us this gift: we receive more than we sought.

We find ourselves saying things we didn't know we knew, wanting things we didn’t know we wanted, becoming someone we didn’t yet know we could be. The path matters because the path changes us, and in changing us, it changes where we can go next.

A Philosophy of Conversation

"Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am."

—Parker Palmer, from "Let Your Life Speak"

And this is why I put “ayy lmao” in my meme about the heart of philosophy. Laughter is the divine thing that transmutes stupid bullshit into something real. It cracks up the edifice of polite fictions and tedious prattle and gets to the heart of things. And fun, I think, always has a spirit of laughter about it, even if you’re doing it quietly with... See more

Visakan Veerasamy • on scaffolding

“Things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. When you understand that, you abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.” - Leonard Cohen

Henrik Karlsson • Sara Campbell on Substack

starting to suspect having a good conversation and feeling connected is not primarily eye contact or asking a lot of questions or not talking about yourself or whatever, or even curiosity, but some yet more fundamental thing that drives all of it like ... joie de vivre??

i get the sense the core thing is actually quite simple, and all the indicators... See more

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