Creativity
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Creativity
Named after the economist Charles Goodhart, the principle states, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Measurement is only useful when it guides you and adds context to a larger picture, not when it consumes you. Each number is simply one piece of feedback in the overall system.
James Clear • Atomic Habits
We value creative people and funny people so highly in society because creativity and being funny are two things that cannot be faked. You can fake smart, you can fake rich, you can fake confident, you can fake nice, but you can’t fake creativity and you can't fake funny
Dylan O'Sullivanx.comTo illustrate the difference between art and technique, he tells the story of two people who each make a glass cup: the first person designs a fine, functional glass from which one can drink perfectly, but the second person, an artisan, creates another glass cup that is so special, it generates an emotional reaction.
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I even resisted sitting at a desk, so my studio mates rarely saw me, and most of my work was done in nature, underneath trees, by the water, and sometimes in cafés, galleries, and the botanical garden. And the rest was a vast, empty space that I didn’t know how to navigate any more than I knew how to start drawing from a blank piece of paper.
Martina Gobec • Everything you want is on the other side of “should.”
The artifacts associated with work have become fetishized, while the impact, the human emotional and conceptual changes that result from that work now feel ephemeral and fleeting, when they’re the whole reason anyone does anything.
#361: Jim Collins — A Rare Interview with a Reclusive Polymath - The Tim Ferriss Show
pca.stThe Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
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