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One thing I would suggest is finding a way to make a lot of things and put them out, just to get a cycle going, without even thinking that it’s for anybody or that it’s going to accomplish anything. But every time you put something out, it makes it that much easier to put something else out. So you’re creating a sense of freedom in making things
... See moreEric Skelton • Creativity, According to Rick Rubin
The joy of aging isn’t about abandoning our youth, it’s about balancing learned wisdom with childlike wonder, grounded confidence with conscious curiosity, and innate depth with delicious delight.
Amanda R. Martinez • Many People Have A Fear Of Aging; These Helpers Ask: What If We Aged With Joy Instead?
Childhood could be called the age of play and therefore some children are never young and some adults never old. Never give up play as this will speed up aging and lower quality of life.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the... See more
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the... See more
Samuel Ullman Museum | UAB
As children, we experience much less interference between receiving ideas and internalizing them. We accept new information with delight instead of making comparisons to what we already believe; we live in the moment rather than worrying about future consequences; we are spontaneous more than analytical; we are curious, not jaded. Even the most
... See moreRick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
These childlike superpowers include being in the moment, valuing play above all else, having no regard for consequences, being radically honest without consideration, and having the ability to freely move from one emotion to the next without holding on to story. For children, each moment in time is all there is. No future, no past. I want it now,
... See moreRick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
The mind of a child is a beginner's mind and beginner's mind is about having sort of an attitude of openness and eagerness and a lack of preconceptions, when it comes to studying a subject. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few. So by approaching a subject, the way a beginner or a child would, we... See more
Beginner – Foxy Music
if you approach small children without an agenda, if you can match the openness of their minds, you too are open.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
Play seems childish and even transgressive to most, and so they miss a major life trick. To be playful is to live true to who you are as a human.
Play is how we express our acceptance of uncertainty.
Life is uncertain. Play aligns our actions with this lack of knowing.
Play is how we express our acceptance of uncertainty.
Life is uncertain. Play aligns our actions with this lack of knowing.