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At some point in their teenage years—and sometimes earlier—the future geniuses would apprentice themselves intellectually to someone with exceptional capacity in their field.
Henrik Karlsson • Childhoods of Exceptional People
Exception people did some kind of cognitive apprenticeships in their teenage.
If you think the next big idea in your field will come from inside the field, you're probably wrong. https://t.co/hx6gG2jGi3
If you think the next big idea in your field will come from inside the field, you're probably wrong.
Writing increases your rate of revelation. This is true irrespective of the subject because writing is a process of reflection, assertion, and iteration.
Writing clarifies your own ideas. Writing begets new ideas too. Writing lets you explore ideas in depth even if you won’t have time to act on them all. Writing shows people how you think and lets ... See more
Writing clarifies your own ideas. Writing begets new ideas too. Writing lets you explore ideas in depth even if you won’t have time to act on them all. Writing shows people how you think and lets ... See more
Anu • Writer-Builders
Writing as an act of discovering and connecting new ideas
Cognitive patience: The ability to slow down, think deeply, and carefully evaluate information
Once again I was struck by one of the miracles of the cognitive process—that the act of writing will summon from the buried past exactly what we need exactly when we need it. Memory and intuition and chance associations will always generate a certain percentage of what any writer writes. The remainder is generated by reason.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
The idea of putting things in a box just doesn’t work for me. It worked for a generation that was supposed to be where they are. My story starts from immigrant parents from Ghana in West Africa. On the will of my dad making it to America, I was afforded the range of options opposite from a third world country.
Being an outsider allowed Abloh to appr... See more
Trung Phan • 9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh
The importance of an outsider perspective
