Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
Steven Pinker
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“The best way to verify that you are alive is by checking if you like variations.”
Nassim Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“I think it’s important in creativity to understand the value of hesitation, to not be in a rush, to pull back and pause — not because you’re blocked, not because you don’t know what to do, but just to let things enrich themselves.”
“You break experience up into pieces and you put them together in different combinations, and some are real and some are not, some are documentary, and some are imagined…It takes a pedestrian and literal mind to be worried about which is true and which is not true. It’s all of it not true, and it’s all of it true.”
— Author Walter Stegner in an interview with Richard Etulain
Fact or fiction, our lives are but are an amalgamation of experience and imagination, neither of which explains the factual nature of our origins. Context fence-sits to prove no foreseeable answer, one that needs no seeking anyway.
The above quote is lifted from the afterword in Wallace Stegner’s novel Crossing to Safety, a highly recommended read.
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The power of rituals
Rituals: They drop heart levels. They alleviate anxiety. They deaden the fear by practicing it beforehand, strengthening confidence.
At the end of the day, you’re either ready or you’re not. But priming the mind with a ritual — whether it feels random or not — may just be the thing that gets you over the hump.
“Habits are more important than fears.” – Seth Godin
Read The power of rituals: they calm nerves and boost performance
“This ‘Wait!’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’”
His message: Own up. Take responsibility now. No fence-sitting.
So many of us hesitate, waiting for mass acceptance. Believe in what’s right and push for it. Don’t wait.
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John Peel on discovering new music
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John Peel on vinyl
“Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs
are better than vinyl because they don’t have any surface noise.
I said, ‘Listen, mate, life has surface noise.”
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“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”