creativity

good art—at least the art I am spontaneously drawn to—has little to do with communication. Instead, it is about crafting patterns of information that, if you feed them sustained attention, will begin to structure your attentional field in interesting ways. Art is guided meditation.

here has been a large amount of discourse around the rise of anti-intellectualism. I don’t see any growing concerns over the rise of anti-imagination. I’m going to be the first to say that we are in an age of anti-imagination . Where anti-intellectualism is running rampant so is the lack of imagination and where we see no refreshing future it only... See more

As cultural theorist Raymond Williams has argued, restricting creative value to elite artistic production obscures the social and political functions of imagination. It sidelines the creative labor embedded in care work activism, community survival strategies and everyday sensemaking. Limiting imagination and creativity to specific professions and... See more

to be a fantasist you must be willing to suspend your disbelief and be comfortable with the elusiveness of self. I was speaking specifically to relinquishing control of an identity fixation.

This means that if we switch what we pay attention to more often than, say, every 30 minutes, our system will be more or less decohered—different parts will be “attending to” different aspects of reality.2 There will be “attention residue” floating around in our system—leftovers from earlier things we paid attention to (thoughts looping, feelings... See more

When I observe my own experience and analyse why things worked out, I can tell you that it wasn’t because of any business skills or much of my knowledge; it was 90% because every time I had an idea (for a career project, a new initiative in my business, a role I wanted to learn to do), I would take advantage of the momentum of inspiration... See more