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“if we cannot tell a story about what happened to us, nothing has happened to us.” ― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games.
I'm realizing how terrible one's memory truly is. Without documenting life, it's painfully easy to forget so many important moments. This is important because we so often lean on other's memor... See more
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is ... See more
No matter what tools you use to create, the true instrument is you. And through you, the universe that surrounds us all comes into focus.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity. To see past the ordinary and mundane and get to what might otherwise be invisible.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
As the French film director Robert Bresson once said, “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
Ryder Carroll • The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future
“A camera is a device for learning how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange
Learning to be on the lookout for beautiful things is a way of contesting the relentlessly rationalistic view of the world that surrounds us. Just as we produce thoughts by talking things over, we produce memories by composing them and reflecting. By taking lots of photos you may come to find more things you cherish.
Simon Sarris • On the Usefulness of Photography
And you know, I understood that memory and personal records and stuff like that, that seemed to be related to time—like, of course they are! But both Sarah and Charan have helped me understand how our drive to document things—whether with diaries or photos or just memories in your head—those are kind of symptoms of that desire to “hold on to” our e
... See moreRanganath: And so, this ability to engage with our past actually informs our narratives of our life. And they inform our sense of who we are. If we take that into the realm of time, the more of a rich life narrative we can construct, the more we feel that time was well spent.
Ranganath: And I think even the painful experiences in our life, if we eng
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