Creativity
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Creativity
The arts tell us what is possible and what is not, because, among other things, they tell us who is human and who is not.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • The Message
One of the things I always liked about his approach to language is that it is work: work to speak up, work to hold fast to what matters, work to remain faithful to what is essential. When listening to him, it was irrelevant to me whether I was part of the fold of religious belief or not. What mattered was the belief in the power of language used... See more
The vocation of language
Imagination, in other words, is the ground on which we fight against determinism, fatalism, the dead hand of hindsight and the unavoidable tendency of our brains, always hungry to find meanings and patterns, to conclude that whatever did happen was the only thing that could have happened.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
“What I have always wanted is to expand the frame of humanity, to shift the brackets of images and ideas,” Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects in The Message (public library) — his soulful and sobering reckoning with the power of words and the power structures roiling beneath the landscape of permission for making the images and ideas we call art. What... See more
Maria Popova • The Marginalian
Imagining is a rigorous discipline. Imagination is our greatest national resource, one that drives value creation across the sciences, the humanities, the arts, and business. All compelling entrepreneurial ventures, transformative social movements, and technological breakthroughs begin with an inspired sense of possibility.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
But creatives also need thinking time, a moment to rewind and allow old thoughts to leave and new ones to come in. Creative thinking rarely moves in straight lines. It benefits from pauses, detours, and periods where nothing tangible appears to be happening. These phases often feel rich from within, yet they offer little external proof.
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Zoë Yasemin • The Pressure to Always Be Productive as a Creative
Creativity fills the soul.
Consumption drains it.
Consumption drains it.
Ryan Hennessey • Ryan Hennessey (@iamryanhennessey)
I used to struggle w needing to be “creative” or “original” in my work. At some point I had a breakthrough that really helped me: I cannot repeat an idea, no matter how basic or common, without imparting some of my worldview into it.
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