Kasturi Kiri
@shoesatthe_door
Kasturi Kiri
The absence of shame makes trying —to do something new, change how you usually act in a difficult moment, cultivate a practice or ongoing habit that has so far eluded you—less terrifying.
Because shame often comes from fearing failure or actually failing, and then feeling as if the failure has something important to say.
Because shame often comes from fearing failure or actually failing, and then feeling as if the failure has something important to say.
Celine Nguyen • you are good enough as you are
Failure does not have something important to say
I co-sign on the idea that even though method and materials matter, the methodology should only be in service of the final goal. Do not create a perfect system that is impossible to maintain.
Petya K. Grady • Issue 104: The Reading Life of... Celine Nguyen
Imperfect, consistent habit over an impossible-to-maintain perfect one
Things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. I must graft. I must water, as with lettuce. Ripening goes on in my mind. So I’m always working at a great many things at the same time.
Joan Miro • I Work Like a Gardener
Ideas, if watered regularly, are always ripening in the mind.
No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
A memory is not a singular event, but a trail of associations.
Building relationships between things is a form of authorship too.
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
Making connections between ideas (or curation) is a valid and robust form of creativity
Always work (note, write) from your own interest, never from what you think you should be noting or writing. Trust your own interest.
Petya K. Grady • Issue 104: The Reading Life of... Celine Nguyen
Focus on what interests you, not what others expect of you
Charleston — Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines: a radical art school
charleston.org.uk