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“The energy that flows through a system acts to organize that system.”
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman
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“polymaths,” broad with at least one area of depth.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Margaret Wheatley published a book called Leadership and the New Science,
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
The Feynman style owed a great deal to the personality of the man. In his professional and private life he seemed to treat the world as a hugely entertaining game. The physical universe presented him with a fascinating series of puzzles and challenges, and so did his social environment.
Robert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Art historian Sarah Lewis studies creative achievement, and described Geim’s mindset as representative of the “deliberate amateur.”
(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
have also been impressed and developed by the speeches of biomimicry teacher Janine Benyus, the mycelium/mushroom scholar Paul Stametz, the organizing model of Ella Baker, the Toltec worldview presented in The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, and the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (particularly the interpretations of Stephen Mitchell and Le Guin).