Madhuri
- 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
- 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
You must mourn the loss of your younger self, the person who has gotten you this far but who is no longer equipped to carry you onward.
from The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery by Brianna Wiest
- Why do furniture designers keep designing new chairs? We know it's not to solve the problem of "sitting." The chair is simply the medium. The true goal is something bigger: to inspire, to broaden our understanding of what's possible, or express something unique about what it means to be alive today.
from No more boring apps
" Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. "
Howard Thurmanfrom Aliveness: Reframing Productivity by Thomas Klaffke
- "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
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