curiosities
The disgustingly educated are not “know-it-alls.” They’re “want-to-know-it-alls.” They collect questions like souvenirs and chase answers like lovers. Google should be tired of you.
Amira • How to be disgustingly educated
These are powerful questions and I the version of it I would ask you today is:
- What are you most curious about?
- What is your unique perspective or way of helping in this domain?
- Given the infinite resources available to you today, why are you doing nothing about this?
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
Monica Lee-Henell, an artist friend of mine, has some great advice on how to use Pinterest. She creates a bunch of boards themed around things she’s drawn to, like landscapes, or portraits, or the color yellow. Then she pins like a crazy person in each of the categories! You might go into this thinking “a portrait is a portrait,” but once you’ve
... See moreLisa Congdon • Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic
how to get smart again: building a media syllabus
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Follow curiosities down deep rabbit holes and emerge with unique ideas. Partake in vivid and varied adventures to build up a set of experiences that is unique to you. Run away from the areas in which you are average and towards those where you might be special.
Packy McCormick • Differentiation
Ask yourself, “What are the questions I’ve always been interested in?”
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Being curious is important to me. Not only because it is how I get ideas for essays. It feels to me like everyone has something unrepeatable to bring into the world. And we can manifest it by going in our direction of maximal interestingness.
Henrik Karlsson • A Funny Thing About Curiosity
the world is fractal and gets richer the deeper you pay attention https://t.co/7EsnMYwZat
The coolest things I discovered didn’t really come from doing research but rather from giving up researching and embracing connecting. Whether that means directly connecting with locals or connecting with once surroundings in a more metaphysical sense – like the kind of connecting that William Butler Yeats hints at when he says that “the world is... See more