Sensemaking
It’s both a blessing and a curse to be an artist: while artists give life to their emotions, it can also be a very isolating place to feel deeply, including sensitivity to judgments.
... See more“If you see tremendous beauty or tremendous pain where other people see little or nothing at all, you’re confronted with big feelings all the time. These emotions can
To make great work, we need to be submerged in great work to tell apart the great from the good. We can train our sensitivity towards quality stimulus by levelling up our taste - because there’s infinite amount of data and that not everything deserves our time & energy.
... See more“The objective is not to learn to mimic greatness, but to calibrate our internal
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youtu.beWe need to find those in-between moments to let our brain breathe, contemplate, and make sense of the information that we just take in, in order to form connections with the world and understand it better. Journalling is a good practice to actively engage our memory - not only for recall, for as a point of taking time to sit and reflect those memory, so that we can build a sense of “self”.
Oliver Balch • Thought-tinkering – the Korean German philosopher Byung-Chul Han | Aeon Essays
erfahrung: accumulated experience
erlebnis: incidental, lived experience (instance)
yana yuhai • how to find magic in the ordinary (the neuroscience of whimsy)
DMN is activated by default, when we’re not putting attention into the front of our minds - i.e. the state of drifting.
yana yuhai • how to find magic in the ordinary (the neuroscience of whimsy)
Children have no choice but to be present, and hence, look through the eyes of the innocent and everything feels new.
yana yuhai • how to find magic in the ordinary (the neuroscience of whimsy)
“Experience provides wisdom to draw from, but it tempers the power of naïveté.” (P.121)
[ Takeaway: p.121, Beginner’s Mind - The Creative Act: Rick Rubin ]