Madhuri
“The narcissism of small differences.’ That’s a phrase coined by Freud. ‘Der Narzissmus der kleinen Differenzen.’
It means, I think, that when two things are very similar, you end up inflating the small differences between them far more than you would the larger differences between two less similar things”
- "So I’m on this plane and I’m reading the scene and, all of a sudden, I just started bawling," Hugh says. "It’s a sad scene, but more than that, it was the shock of recognition. I did not live in 1930s Korea and yet, when I read that scene about Yangjin going to the rice merchant, I felt like I experienced it in my bones."
from 'Pachinko' explores the dark legacy of Japan’s colonisation of Korea by Alex Sujong Laughlin
Note from Hugh while reading Pachinko
- How to build a creative playground
Here are 4 tips on how to lock yourself into a cage and have fun :
1. Make variations : Stick with something that you can iterate and vary. Think of basketball: There is only one goal, yet there are countless ways to achieve it.
2. Limit your time : This lets you know when you are done .
3. Pick a format : You won’t... See morefrom The Creative Playground - Ralph Ammer
- More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.
from Leadership Quotes by Doris Kearns Goodwin
"It is the same rain that you loved that drowned you." – Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
