Embrace ignorance / Talk at CSM split this up

There is nothing more interesting or exciting than exciting curious naive and genuinely motivated people. Use that lack of information that lack of experiences to power forward and do things. People will look at you favourably.

Jonathan Quaade

You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results…Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits.3

James Clear Atomic Habits

The trick is to act immediately on the idea and not push it back or just write it down - Sam Peitz

Sam Peitz - The intersection of art and product

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‘there was something about the first spark when I saw the first bubble that I really liked that got me really excited”

Design thinking activities and tools - Enterprise Design Thinking

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Paul – This is great! I really like the structure of problem > tactic > principles — and to facilitate a workshop for the students to identify, and think through how to tackle them, and not ignore them — is perfect!

To pose the prompt “I want to…” to the students would elicit an array of thing for them to address, when I worked at the BBC they used to do a great ‘Hopes & Fears’ exercise before every project, to individually map them out, and then to think through how to mitigate or tackle any fears or challenges. It makes me think that this aligns to your workshop… What do you want? How do you get there? What are the obstacles? What are the ways to overcome them?

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Why Pre-Founder?

You don’t need the right idea. Just build momentum. That’s such a channeling convention.

Which means, strangely enough, that coming up with startup ideas is a question of seeing the obvious. That suggests how weird this process is: you're trying to see things that are obvious, and yet that you hadn't seen.

paulgraham.com • How to Get Startup Ideas

Sublime on Substack

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You all had to have a certain level of naivety to get here. “I wanna go to the most famous design school in world.” You guys do know that the acceptance rate is only like 30%. But a lot of probably didn’t think about that. You just did it. You weren’t burdended by that “knowledge”.

A moment to move away from the ordinary

Choose Ignorance

Ian MacGill Christ - “One of the important things in creativity is to stop the “I’ve got it. I’ve grasped. Now I know what it is” attitude of left hemisphere stopping the process prematurely. Creativity art and cretivity in terms of thinking needs to have a way of guardian against too quick collapse this is what it is”

How often did you talk about the weather when you were a kid?

I don’t remember speaking about the weather at uni ever. Unless it snowed. It was always about ambitions, dream hardships, goal projects, gossip. Nothing is glacified and solidified at that age. That’s something you can tap into.

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