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When you collect lots of small data points, you create a “breadrumb trail” and are mote likely to notice overarching trends than if you were to focus only on the most salient experiences. Include in your field notes: insights, energy, mood, encounters.
Tiny Experiments • Ch. 2
Marie-Louise von Franz (a Jungian psychologist) puts it bluntly: when you don’t live out your creative side, the energy doesn’t disappear. It misfires. You obsess, overthink, romanticize the wrong people, catastrophize the small stuff — all because your potential has nowhere to land.
Sometimes, the restlessness isn’t about them. It’s... See more
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•The best way to learn about your new passion is to teach yourself. Go back to school by creating your own curriculum. Develop a timetable, stick to that routine, and engage in self-imposed solitude.
Dr Costas Andriopoulos • Purposeful Curiosity
Getting psyched about a curiosity project requires a sense of urgency. You need to tap into your sense of yearning to explore what you find meaningful, and you must remind yourself that this is a time-limited quest. You only live once, after all. When others say, “It cannot be done,” the curious respond, “If we start now, we might be able to do
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A hindering fear almost always follows a what-if approach to anything new. To fully engage your curiosity, learn to distinguish between valid fears and unsubstantiated ones. For those who engage in life-threatening pursuits, much as Canadian adventurer and storm chaser George Kourounis does, curiosity itself can be the best way to overcome fear.
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Being in a single linear path to your dreams is not the way to live.