Mindset
by Beverley · updated 3mo ago
Mindset
I think we all want to be heard and music is a way to let out our inner emotional life, sometimes in a way that can’t necessarily be understood any other way. It functions different than prose or storytelling in that the music has an emotional base to it, even without the words. So you can feel this energy and express whatever’s going on inside of
... See morefrom Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being
Beverley added 3mo ago
- Steve Jobs once said, “ The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller . The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.”
from Generalist Capital: In Search of Epics | The Generalist by Mario Gabriele
Beverley added 4mo ago
When members of the Mac team got ensnared in his reality distortion field, they were almost hypnotized. “He reminded me of Rasputin,” said Debi Coleman. “He laser-beamed in on you and didn’t blink. It didn’t matter if he was serving purple Kool-Aid. You drank it.” But like Wozniak, she believed that the reality distortion field was empowering: It e
... See morefrom Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
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- At first Hertzfeld thought that Tribble was exaggerating, but after two weeks of working with Jobs, he became a keen observer of the phenomenon. “The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand,” he said.
from Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Beverley added 4mo ago
phrase, now famously used in reference to Steve Jobs, “reality distortion field”, where the hype or belief in something is an illusion of its actual state.
from The Person in Personalisation: The Story Of How Marketing's Most Treasured Possession Became Anything but Personal by David Mannheim
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