creativity
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The probable oddity
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Her look went beyond centuries, but so did her footwork. She demanded to stand out in a sea of sameness, to dive in a forest of waves rather than swim in the treadmill of pools. As society hallows each of us out, we must try harder to excavate a sense of special pride. Having first…
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Stripping away the camouflage
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Some people are like the octopus: changing with haste to match their surroundings, only to hide and rage into their naked quirks when they return home. One cannot define the individual, where the inner current of uniqueness strikes the soul with the utmost transparency, no camouflage. Hiding from one’s self is for the fakers. The…
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Thinking with a helping hand
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The ideas get imposed and go unquestioned as people accept them with automatic comprehension. But it’s those that can remain detached from the concept of sidedness that steer their own path. We have to create our roadshow. One of the most powerful draws of individualism is high efficacy, the belief in constructing one’s thought and…
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Self-optimization through art
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We are worth knowing, far more than what we give ourselves credit for. Rational assessment may say otherwise. But to believe that our work matters less than what’s deemed socially valuable or popular is insanity. We have to practice empathic firmness toward making our art. Only a few become naked and famous. After all, Van…
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Defying expectations
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There is conflict and harmony between doubt and applause. The art would not be so interesting had it been expected. The audience seeks novelty and wants to be awed. The creator, therefore, goes beyond predictability and dances with the fear of disapproval. When we’re making something, we’re almost always uncertain how it might be accepted.…
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Time to bear this in mind
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Bear in mind that the passport to freedom comes from the gift of time. Time is more valuable than money, the latter which shall be earned, not stolen. The only way to capitalize on the ticking clock is to combine work and play. Everything is a distraction — the television, the worst of all, choking…
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Copycat cravings
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To be free of copycat cravings, the individual moves on in a setting of controlled forgetting. It’s always time to move on from the herd. The mainstream never solves every human problem. It exaggerates the solutions, sucking up to the truth as the best lie. We exist at the expense of each other as if…
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Probing the information bubble
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The reporter gathers string. The student collects artifacts. The interested are hunter-gatherers of information. They play life by the ear to bring the art of noticing to a world of scant attention. Blankness exerts its control. Zero thoughts, zero neurochemical flocks — where “staying informed” is merely for entertainment. That vital urge to research is…
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For work’s sake
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The consistency of the paint. Showing up and doing it, again and again, is not a magic trick. It’s a routine. It’s the challenge of no challenge – the rawness of pure practice. The result rarely smothers in success. The only guarantee is stressed eyes, heart, face oil, and a dirty shirt. But there is…
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It takes the time that it takes
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It takes the time that it takes. We are suckers for speed, enthralled by unnecessary fast focus. The ideas get introduced. The work gets done. The advice goes noticed. We consume, produce, and disconnect. The revelations occur at rest. The chase for the security of doneness makes us insecure. The bridge to certainty remains broken,…
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Enjoy the silence
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Silence is the loudest sound — unprovoked, it can screech worse than nails on a chalkboard. But the pursuit of distraction is man’s attempt to escape the cacophony of a deaf monkey mind. To break from mental prison, we conjure up an oasis of sound: social media and/or TV, dual screens, infinitely scrolling through feeds…
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The right problem to solve
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Finding the right problem to solve — is it that appears in front of us or behind us, invisible to the naked eye? We strive to make a circulation visible from the darkness of webs. In assessing what is known and unknown, including our blind spots, we cram into the intensification of discovery. Never underestimate…