creativity
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Beyond labels
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1 min read
Job titles inflict pain as any definition does — they curtail thinking outside the box. Imagine what you can do with a bank of experience under a “title” — now take that and get LinkedIn to your next gig. The individual is undefinable. Creative consciousness is an act of free will, a pragmatic solve for…
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Feeling the pinch
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Creativity offers a piercing mental clarity that removes the mind from the gravity of mechanical postures. Unfortunately, the everyday grind fails to inspire and galvanize originality. We all hope to defy the stagnancy that plagues so many. Life is an experiment. And the most interesting experiences put the bones in the goose. We keep moving.…
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Awaiting the last twist
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Waiting for that last twist — the end always requires so much patience. The information is there but the experience remains on hold. Like a writer that pauses amid disfluency, the viewer becomes gratified after a series of (fake) pumps and hesitations. One paradox of slow is the beautiful slow hiccup, one that prevents going…
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Outside the training data
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We chase the most interesting type of bullshit. The imagination lights up like a Christmas tree when the immediate world dissipates around us, and the imaginary takes the primary view. Listen: taking revenge against reality pays dividends. That is to say, the thoughts tend to come more easily, and the creativity more fun when there’s…
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Too content for content
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Time, infinitely manufactured, trains our brain to think forever. Eternity remains a distraction. In reality, time is scarce, the waning seconds escaping like quicksand. “One day” becomes the procrastinator’s potion. The situation calls for urgency, deploying the brain and the spine. After navigating the flood of idleness, we get hypnotized to create. Albeit, briefly. Fighting…
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Rightsizing life
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The reduction of ambition rightsizes one’s life. Suddenly, those magnetic forces, trophies, hefty pocketbooks, and rich attractions lose their lure. All the stylization and mimetic desire mean little. The sheep collective drowns in the waterfall of white fountains. What matters is cultivating a satisfaction with fomo that becomes intrinsic. The reward for sitting out or…
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The visionary compass
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2 min read
To be interesting, we have to be interested, that is, an atypical perspective discovers atypicality in our surroundings. Different is a way of seeing. But it doesn’t come naturally, it flows through some mental defect, which, if lacking, takes some pre-programming to tilt the visionary compass. Taste is grown and groomed by shapeshifting through variegated…
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A catalog of emotions
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We live with a catalog of emotions, whipsawing between highs and lows. Most of the undulation is due to poor internal weather. We are not neutral, pushed inside and outside by competing forces. One minute we’re a lover of rule-breakers with scrupulous indifference; the next, we’re just another lemming, a sheep jumping through hoops. We…
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A mind run riot
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Creativity occurs when the imagination runs riot. The mind, an inherently jumpy organ, delves into its own fruitful space — probing fantastic and experiential possibilities. Truth is not the matter. Searching for what’s real and pure invention harbor the same goal: to pile up ideas. So we write a shitty rough draft or build a…
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In the spell of imagination
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To remain in the spell, unmoored from the compass of time and place. The inner narrative reverberates off our surroundings. We become how we see, think, and respond. The mind is always in the process of masticating the materials to prepare the imagination for lift-off. Moon shots take their shape at the precipice of unfettered…
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Writing takes guts
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2 min read
Writing is a bitch. It takes routine, grit, and lots of induced anxiety to show up every day and put pen for paper. There’s a reason few do it: it’s depressing. But for those who do, like runners, consistency means everything. Putting words together is like jogging the brain; working on prose keeps the artist…
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Memes are a hurricane of influence
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A meme is a hurricane of influence. It finds a human host, a signal booster, who spreads the meme before it takes on a life of its own. Historically, words are the simplest of memes, necessitating a language of thought. But most memes today are visual concepts manifested in viral images shared on social media.…