favourite questions
what questions guide your life?
favourite questions
“Why is this so hard? Because you’re utterly habituated to steady progress—to completing things, to producing, to solving. When progress is subtle or slow, when there’s no clear way to proceed, you flinch away. You redirect your attention to something safer, to something you can do. You jump to implementation prematurely; you feel a co
... See moreAndy Matuschak • Cultivating Depth and Stillness in Research
How do I propel my creativity?
How do I create more than I consume?
learn when to let go of the project
A first step is to entertain possible selves:29 identify some people you admire within or outside your field, and observe what they actually do at work day by day. A second step is to develop hypotheses about how these paths might align with your own interests, skills, and values. A third step is to test out the different identities by running expe
... See moreAdam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
how can I learn to focus, pay attention to what I am paying attention to ?
moments of silence, vaccum, being idle - in this overstimulated world
Not be afraid of tools and techniques, to trust learn them along the wat
“Everything I do is just personal taste and it’s what [my book The Creative Act] is about. Really, for [people and artists] to trust in themselves. Make something that speaks to themselves. And hopefully someone else will like it. But you can’t second-guess your own taste for what someone else is going to like. It won’t be good. We’re not smart eno... See more
Write For Yourself
How do I get comfortable with discomfort? How do I coax my risk averse nature to take a leap of faith?
you should collect whatever you fancy. And some things are obvious: images, quotes, facts. But there are non-obvious things that will come in handy one day. Analogies, metaphors, ideas, models, assumptions, habits, patterns, vibes, objects that express ideas, images that evoke occasions, things you don’t understand yet but that you feel will mean s
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