Spying on myself
Getting to know me from a distance
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Spying on myself
“Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.”
— Salvador Dalí
we meet the self through exchanging with Others.
What if the notion of ‘Others’ goes beyond humans - and gives room for the environment to be a mirror in which a self is discovered?
Too many things to highlight in this article.
Liminal creativity can help carve a path from disorientation to discovery, from uncertainty to curiosity, from fear to innovation. It can turn scary situations into transformational experiences of self-discovery and self-authorship. In fact, life itself is a liminal space between birth and death.
Think of liminal creativity as a conscious act of venturing out of the mind's perimeter of comfort.
As comic Bruce Feiler says: “It takes about seven years to master something. If you live to be 88, after age 11, you have 11 opportunities to be great at something. Those are your lifetimes. Use them.” Do not fall prey to the self-consistency fallacy. Learn something new. Change careers. Take a risk. Reimagine your identity. Live all of your lifetimes."
Making space for the inbetween
Temptations
open.spotify.comTake a walk in the dark. “'Temptations' is an ode to the forbidden fruit we all face in our life…with focus, discipline and respect, you can learn to direct the changes that happen into something you can grow from”.
Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
instagram.comThe soul of any performance is whatever we keep hidden.
-Sim Gray, Movement///Possession founder
“In order to be one, you must first be two”- Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity
Finding what’s behind me