Neil
@foolishneil
Neil
all big ideas come from the unconscious. This isn't just true of art and science but advertising. Your unconscious isn't like the cupboard in Narnia. You can't just prop it open and step into some magical world. You've got to stuff it full of relevant information.
Go on.
When you can't fit another thing in there, you must unhook your rational thought... See more
Go on.
When you can't fit another thing in there, you must unhook your rational thought... See more
A Simple Two-Word Description That Accurately Describes How Everything in the World Works
SIX at 6: Mirrored Reciprocation, Nichols’ Turning Point, Nooyi’s Mentors, Huang’s Past, Honnold’s Brain, and The Fruits of Action
It’s mirrored reciprocation…That’s how the world works…mirrored reciprocation.
Krishna tells Arjuna in The Bhagavad Gita: “You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward...Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do.”
SIX at 6: Mirrored Reciprocation, Nichols’ Turning Point, Nooyi’s Mentors, Huang’s Past, Honnold’s Brain, and The Fruits of Action
The most profound experiences of our lives are unphotographable, untiktokable, irreducible to representation in image or gesture, for they summon the totality of our being: sensation and perception, thought and feeling, the pleasing propulsive confusion we call curiosity and the bright ablution of certainty we call wonder.
How to love the world more, what it's like to meet an orca, how not to be a victim of success
Glowing dolphins in Biscay
The best are always learning.
Read like crazy.
Think alone.
Keep a journal.
Write stuff down the moment you see it.
Review regularly.
Memorize the big ideas to fluency.
Attack your best ideas.
And never get high on your own supply.
You don't have to be gifted. You do have to be deliberate.
Read like crazy.
Think alone.
Keep a journal.
Write stuff down the moment you see it.
Review regularly.
Memorize the big ideas to fluency.
Attack your best ideas.
And never get high on your own supply.
You don't have to be gifted. You do have to be deliberate.
Brain Food: Think Alone
Heraclitus
the British physicist Sir Arthur Eddington’s memorable explanation of how the universe works: “Something unknown is doing we don’t know what.”
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
The universe is fundamentally a system which creeps up on itself and then says BOO! and then it laughs at itself for jumping.
Alan Wattsx.com