Salman Ansari
@salmanscribbles
embracing my inner polymath — writing, drawing, coding, playing
Salman Ansari
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For children only the present instant exists. For that child the present doesn’t exist for the sake of the future.
from Turning Point: 1997-2008 by Hayao Miyazaki
He said that it’s a very good idea that after you write a little bit, stop and then copy it. Because while you’re copying it, you’re thinking about it, and it’s giving you other ideas. And that’s the way I work. And it’s marvelous, just wonderful, the relationship between working and copying.
from Seek funny leaps by Mason Currey
- Information is little pieces of idea that you have. Your speed lists will probably consist mostly of information.
After you collect a bunch of information, you'll detect patterns and relationships. As you integrate ideas together, it becomes far greater than the sum of the individual pieces- it becomes knowledge .
What is Wisdom? I define it as kno... See morefrom Theory of Notebooks
Understanding Colors — Blender Guru
The video and notes offer an excellent breakdown of color theory and how to use to make more compelling visual art.- But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that wide empty space that ideas emerge. Long runs, hot showers, commutes that don’t involve harried Slack messages and listening to podcasts at 2x speed. Sitting at the edge of a dock, listening to the o... See more
from the scenic route by Jasmine Sun
- “I’ve often said I should start a new 12-step program called Recovering Nice Persons Anonymous. We would get together periodically and talk about how reflexively we compromise our values in order to be acceptable, to fit in.”
— A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity by James Hollis
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- Young Adults Are in Crisis - The Atlantic
from Young Adults Are in Crisis — The Atlantic by Faith Hill
Young adults are the ones most in crisis. Even Richard Weissbourd, who led the study in 2022, was taken aback. His team found that 36 percent of participants ages 18 to 25 reported experiencing anxiety and 29 percent reported experiencing depression—about double the proportion of 14-to-17-year-olds on each measure. More than half of young adults were worried about money, felt that the pressure to achieve hurt their mental health, and believed that their lives lacked meaning or purpose. Teenagers and senior citizens are actually the two populations with the lowest levels of anxiety and depression, Weissbourd’s research has found.
- I no longer pray—
now I drink dark chocolate
and let the moon sing to me. Status and the Illusion of Progress - More To That
“status is one of our greatest poisons. Because the pursuit of it is the very antithesis of knowing yourself. Anytime you play a status game, you take on the perspective of an outsider looking in, judging who you are based on whatever metric or position you’re chasing. You give credence to the belief that you’re not enough, and that there’s something you need to achieve to finally accept who you are. But of course, any chase of this nature has no end, given that your very participation in this chase means that self-acceptance isn’t possible.”