Galina Walls
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Galina Walls
This is what I call purposeful curiosity, the kind that gets you off your couch and propels you to solve complex puzzles. It is about immersing yourself into the unknown with clarity, passion, courage, and a positive, enterprising attitude. This kind of curiosity requires effort, patience, and resources and may lead you to exhaustion, but it is als
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•The best way to learn about your new passion is to teach yourself. Go back to school by creating your own curriculum. Develop a timetable, stick to that routine, and engage in self-imposed solitude.
Dr Costas Andriopoulos • Purposeful Curiosity
At first, most of humankind's ideas and stories were fleeting, bound to voices and memories as impermanent as the wind. With writing they solidified. And with paper, they became immutable objects capable of travelling through time. The medium, especially in its modern form, revolutionized knowledge, art, and the sciences. It liberated thoughts by a... See more
The chair and the Aqua-Lung — laROQUE | photographer.photographe
every workflow should be understood as a tool in your repertoire. All too often there is a misconception that the most important thing is to find “your own way of working”. I reduce my contemporary critique to the following: I consider it another manifestation of the modern and exceedingly narcissistic belief that one’s ego is the most important th... See more
Field Report #9: Excerpting Instead of Processing
Read books, case studies, and academic research or reports to familiarize yourself with the new domain before contacting people who know about the subject. Get up-to-date about the latest developments and other relevant information so that you don’t waste the expert’s time.
Dr Costas Andriopoulos • Purposeful Curiosity
If language were sufficient to express human thought, why would we need visual arts, music, dance?
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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To get inspired, the preternaturally curious people I interviewed tend to ask five questions time and again: •What if? •Am I sure? •What’s next? •Have I looked closely enough? •Have I looked everywhere? Let’s ask these questions ourselves and go into a little more detail as we try to understand how they can help us become inspired.
Dr Costas Andriopoulos • Purposeful Curiosity
Write a one-page story. Name the problem you want to solve or the world you seek to explore. Explain why you should care about this or why this journey is so hard. Finally, show how you see yourself setting this in motion. Make yourself the protagonist of the story. Use this story to think about the first steps or actions you would take to get star
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