creativity/world building

James Baldwin - The Struggle of The Artist (1969)

In conversation: Nawal El Saadawi with Kenan Malik

NYU-SCPS McGhee Event: "Creativity, Dissidence, and Women" - Dr. Nawal El Saadawi

Working toward a goal, a project, a dream – it requires real dedication. It’s inconvenient. It’s uncomfortable. It’s a lot of sitting in silence. It’s having uninspired days. But it’s also being struck with creativity in the middle of the night. It’s the rush of your fingers flying across the keyboard, trying to keep up with the ideas racing... See more

discomfort is the price you pay for a fulfilling life

Creators who can teach and entertain at the same time aren’t just participating in the creator economy. They’re building the blueprint for where it's headed next.

The Rise of the Infotainer: Why “Being Smart” is Marketable Again

being afraid of being perceived as someone who is trying and failing gets in the way of people doing the thing(s) they were born to do!

"Thought is the face that we put on the meaning that we feel and that we struggle with. The world is always larger and more intense and stranger than our best thought will ever reach."-John O'Donohue

"everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of the world. so, it is never as given as it looks. you're always shaping it, and building it."John O'Donohue