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Beliefs are fuel
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It’s the belief that kills. But a belief can also propel action. In many ways, it is the best medicine in the world, a placebo nocebo. Without belief, we’d never try. Without belief, we’d never stick to our gut and strike up the confidence to take a risk. Without some form of fabricated hope, we’d…
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Field Notes: One small step for notebooks
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The new Field Notes ‘Three Missions’ Edition is out of this world, literally. Because when you’re out in the field gathering string, you don’t want to miss anything. I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now. — Field Notes
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Memory is not the enemy of creativity
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Great find by Alan Jacobs from the book The Craft of Thought by Mary Carruthers, where it’s pointed out that medieval culture emphasized memorization as means of innovation. The orator’s “art of memory” was not an art of recitation and reiteration but an art of invention, an art that made it possible for a person to act…
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Digital art by Manolo Gamboa Naon
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In her book Why We Write, 2011’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan shares three writing tips for aspiring writers: Number two is my favorite piece of advice. Writing is like a muscle that needs to be worked out again and again, kind of like brushing your teeth. After you establish the habit, you should feel a bit empty…
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‘Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity’
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To be old-fashioned is the greatest crime a coat or a hat can be guilty of. To look like nobody else is a sufficiently mortifying reflection ; to be in danger of being mistaken for one of the rabble is worse. Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and…
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When asked how screenwriter and film director Paul Schrader came up with some of his scripts for the movie First Reformed, he responded like all remix artists: PS: The secret of theft, which is also called “creativity,” is you have to steal a bit from a lot of different places. You can’t go to the…
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The Uncomfortable
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A collection of “deliberately inconvenient everyday objects.” 3-D renderings by architect Katerina Kamprani. The concrete umbrella might be my favorite. See more
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Write just one sentence
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Stuck, in limbo, at the fright of starting. It is the activation energy that gets us over the hurdle of inertia. For Ernest Hemingway, writing one sentence motivated him to write more and more. Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one…
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Prompt cards
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Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies has been helping people defeat their creative block since the mid-1970s. But Alain de Botton’s The School of Life is taking the concept a bit further and applying the deadlock to other life’s philosophies such as a career crisis, kindness, self-knowledge, calm and confidence.
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Banksy in Paris
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Seemingly coinciding with Paris Fashion Week, a few new yet unconfirmed pieces from Banksy recently materialized in the French capital. We have three murals for you so far, starting with the wall above featuring a girl spray painting a damask-like pattern over a swastika, speaking to the loss of innocence and the fears of rising…