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
“I’m not interested in myself per se. I’m interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.”
― David Shields, Reality Hunger
Day by day, I resonate with this more.
from Make your Stuff by Austin Kleon:
“it’s not enough to be good. In order to be found, you have to be findable.”
“If you want people to know about what you do and the things you care about, you have to share.”
“Make stuff you love and talk about stuff you love and you’ll attract people who love that kind of stuff. It’s that simple.”
“Teaching people
... See more- Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."
from How to Speak by MIT OpenCourseWare
quotes and Ideas I want to write about
From Patrick Winston’s How to speak session. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY&t=925s
Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.
from Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert