Jasmine Medina
@jasminesbrain
Jasmine Medina
Make art, and while everyone is deciding what they think of it, make more art.” — Andy Warhol
Good communities incubate innovation and creativity – think of the salons in France where intellectuals used to meet to discuss the latest ideas; the Olympia Academy; la Bande de Picasso. A feeling of belonging allows people to be authentic, to move from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset, and to take risks knowing that they have people to... See more
Amanda Ngo • Community-building — amanda ngo
Herding enables remote orchestration of the human situation, foreclosing action alternatives and thus moving behavior along a path of heightened probability that approximates certainty.
Shoshana Zuboff • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
The creative compass — letting your creativity guide you. What is your north star? Where do you hope to be?
I collapsed into dread. I was so afraid. Afraid that no one was trying to stop this machine. Astounded that no one cared how it spun at unsafe revolutions. I couldn’t recognize myself. Who was this person? No answer. I resigned myself to being the operator of a machine I had no agency over.
It’s scary when you think you can’t stop yourself.
It’s scary when you think you can’t stop yourself.
The Opposite of Fear
Perhaps we’ve spread ourselves too thin, by trying to do too much, too fast, with too little. Or maybe we are just limited by a conventional view of success. When we constantly pursue and prioritise ‘more’ above ‘meaning’, we take wrong turns, box ourselves in,
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
this very effort to “become” is the barrier—because you are already carrying your being with you. You need not become anything—simply realize who you are, that’s all. Simply realize who is hidden within you. Improving, whatsoever you improve, you will always be in anxiety and anguish because the very effort to improve is leading you on a wrong
... See moreOsho • Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)
All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of... See more
The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
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