thoughts
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Turning problems into opportunities
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Opportunities and problems go together, often masked as one of the same. It’s your perspective that determines how well you exploit this dialectic. It’s always easier to play the role of a pessimist. Bad thoughts are typically stickier than good ones. Optimism is harder to produce. However, when you look at your challenges with a…
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The geometry of thought
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We comprehend in all shapes and sizes. What’s worthwhile inside is not what we’re told to know but we can intuit. Nothing carries with it explanatory information, only stories as solidified, validated, and retold by others. Unlabeled, we bask in memes and coherent narratives. That is why we must negotiate unfamiliar situations with alternatives. Seeing…
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The mind is a kite
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Think about a purple cow, a rainbow-striped zebra, or a dog driving a pick-up truck. Now try to jettison those images from your mind. Mull over why you’re happy and you may cease feeling so. The process of getting stuck and unstuck originates from the same internal wiring. The unexpected unwanted variable always stings with…
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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…