Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Listen up, guys: this is good [drawing a question mark on the board]... and this is bad [drawing an exclamation point].
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Good is doubt, when you meet someone who doubts, relax, it means they're a good person, it means they're democratic, tolerant.
But when you meet these ones [pointing at the exclamation point], those who are certain, with unwaverin“Cultivating infinite devotion is the prerequisite for becoming great in any field.
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The external rewards typically take so long to appear that the people who ultimately persist to success are the ones who cultivate their internal motivation to the point where the external rewards are just the cherry on top, not the core goal.
From the outside, thesContent Curation Toolkit 2.0
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Consider instead that a life aimed at being useful—creating, helping others, and making a difference—could be more fulfilling and meaningful.
Darius Foroux via GlaspThomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries
Curating = Unpacking for a General Audience
Thomas B. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, shares in this TED video, his journey to become a respected museum curator, and the valuable discoveries and insights realized along the way.
This passage, in particular, struck with me louder than a thousand words:"We live in an age of ubiquitous information, and sort of "just add water" expertise, but there's nothing that compares with the presentation of significant objects in a well-told narrative... what the curator does, the interpretation of a complex, esoteric subject, in a way that retains the integrity of the subject, that makes it -- unpacks it for a general audience."
"The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated." https://t.co/KfFpouh7DmHumans learn through analogy, not logic.
We need narratives that we identify with, we need examples we can relate to.
Source: Chris WongContent Finder Toolkit
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"School does offer children an opportunity to escape their homes and meet new friends.
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But, at the same time, this process indoctrinates children with the idea that they should select their friends from among those with whom they are put together.
Providing the young from their earliest age with invitations to meet, evaluate, and seek out others wo“Love is more important than opinion.
If people love each other, the most varied opinions can be reconciled.
That’s why one of the most important tasks for humanity today and in the future is that we must learn to live together and understand each other. “Rudolf Steiner