creativity

by Margaret Leigh · updated 2mo ago

“Your first draft isn’t an unoriginal idea expressed clearly; it’s an original idea expressed poorly, and it is accompanied by your amorphous dissatisfaction, your awareness of the distance between what it says and what you want it to say. That’s what directs you during rewriting, and that’s one of the things lacking when you start with text genera
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Margaret Leigh added 2mo ago
In the words of neuroscientist Gregory Berns, “only when you consciously confront your brain’s reliance on categories will you be able to imagine outside of its boundaries.” Venturing out of the mind’s perimeter of comfort, in a constant quest for the unknown, liminal creators keep on fueling their imagination by exploring the gray areas that live ... See more
from Liminal Creativity by Ness Labs
Margaret Leigh added 2mo ago
In unpredictable times, poetry leaves the safe, familiar ways of knowing and speaking and listens out into new forms of being and creating. It searches for new insights between the known, it fathoms the space between people, between us and the living world, between different ways of seeing and shaping the world. It listens for new ways of being tha... See more
from The Poetic Art of Living in a Time Between Worlds - Emerge by Mike Kauschke
Margaret Leigh added 2mo ago
Separate the processes of creating from improving. You can’t write and edit, or sculpt and polish, or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you write the first draft, don’t let the judgy editor get near. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgment.
from Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist by Kevin Kelly
Margaret Leigh added 2mo ago
These days it is possible to live particularly disembodied existences, enabled by environments and transportation so comfortable you can wear flip-flops in New England all winter long if you want to. My hope is that the quest every day for a good photo causes you to be outdoors and on foot more. On foot it is impossible to remain out of touch.
from On the Usefulness of Photography by Simon Sarris
Margaret Leigh added 2mo ago
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from Liminal Creativity by Ness Labs

from The Poetic Art of Living in a Time Between Worlds - Emerge by Mike Kauschke

from Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist by Kevin Kelly

from On the Usefulness of Photography by Simon Sarris