Greg Wheeler
@gregwheeler
Steward of wonder. Friend of curiosity. Cultivator of thoughts.
Greg Wheeler
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A “new song” isn’t new because no one has ever heard it before. It’s new because no one else can sing it from where you stand.
Newness doesn’t come from novelty. It comes from encounter.
From seeing something clearly for the first time. From letting an idea pass through your lived experience instead of staying abstract.
From allowing meaning to take
... See moreWe’re surrounded by information. But meaning still requires attention.
And sometimes the most faithful thing you can do—for your thinking, your creativity, your inner life—is to stop moving and let one idea finish its sentence.
You don’t need a new system.
You don’t need better inputs.
You don’t need to be more original.
You might just need to stay a
... See moreTime in erodes awareness of. — Andy Stanley
ideas are not things you get. People tend to think that ideas are things like diamonds. And then you go out and you get them and you grab them and you bring them back. But that's not what ideas are. Ideas are things that grow.... See more
Mo Willems: And so the way to make a book or a story is to have the tiniest inkling of an idea and then to plant it and you
Grace Lin • Episode 9: Where do you get your ideas? With Mo Willems — Kids Ask Authors
If our lives are the ocean, our days are the waves. — Ryder Carroll