Staying curious & learning
Visiting home this time round has been revelatory.
Looking at the piled up books that I’ve never read, I just found out that actually, my interests haven’t changed much: proses about creativity & art, architecture…things that I thought I should be reading about, are actually things that I genuinely connect with since... See more
Harrietsubstack.comTo search is to inherit a worldview. If your archive begins with a search bar, your work begins with someone else’s bias.
The Reference Trap
Being an artist is not strictly definitive to those who are conventionally seen as “creative” - it is more so an attitude, a “how” when it comes to interact with the world.
... See more“To live as an artist is a way of being in the world. A way of perceiving. A practice of paying attention. Refining our sensitivity to tune in to the more subtle notes. Looking
You stop looking sideways. You start looking inward and forward, letting your instinct meet the world on its own terms.
Taste is a lifelong conversation with yourself. It changes, expands, sharpens, softens. The courage is in staying present with it. In letting your preferences grow without forcing them to align with the cultural moment. In allowing... See more
Taste is a lifelong conversation with yourself. It changes, expands, sharpens, softens. The courage is in staying present with it. In letting your preferences grow without forcing them to align with the cultural moment. In allowing... See more
open.substack.com
Post-grad hit like a hazy fog that won’t lift. No more assigned reading, no more late-night debates, no more papers that gave me a reason to think. Now I scroll. I skim. I start articles and abandon them halfway through. I lose my train of thought mid-conversation. I forget words I used to know by heart.
It’s like the muscle that once made me feel... See more
It’s like the muscle that once made me feel... See more
Kylee • unrot your brain
When learning has low stakes (i.e. not linked to academic success or failure), we treat it as a good-to-have and slowly, a disposable commodity.
“Listening without prejudice is how we grow and learn as people. More often than not, there are no right answers, just different perspectives.” (P.112)
[ Takeaway: p.112, Listening - The Creative Act: Rick Rubin ]
To make space for new ideas, means that we’re open to receiving them without making comparisons to existing information. We are focused on being present than attached to an outcome or the future.
... See more“Practising a way of being that allows you to see the world through uncorrupted, innocent eyes can free you act in concert with the universe’s timetable.”
Children, especially younger ones, spend far less time in this state because both the DMN and the prefrontal cortex that helps regulate it are still developing. These systems support self-reflection, long-term planning, and abstract thinking.In other words, kids are naturally more anchored in real-time sensory experience.
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.
To combat self doubts and perfectionism, lower the stakes. Treat the work as play and experiment to inform future work.
[Takeaway: p.77 Make it up - “The Creative Act” by Rick Rubin]