“This is It
and I am It
and You are It
and so is That
and He is It
and She is It
and It is It
and That is That”
James Broughton
“KNOWLEDGE IS A TREASURE, BUT PRACTICE IS THE KEY TO IT”
Ibn Al Muqaddima (1332-1406)
IMAGINE: HOW CREATIVITY WORKS a book by Jonah Lehrer
THE POWER OF HABIT
“When we tell one another stories about creativity, we tend to leave out this phase of the creative process. We neglect to mention those days when we wanted to quit, when we believed that our problems were impossible to solve. Because such failures contradict the romantic version of events-there is nothing triumphant about a false start- we forget all about them. (The failures also remind us how close we came to having no stories to tell). Instead, we skip straight to the breakthroughs. We tell the happy endings”
Imagine a book by JONAH LEHRER
A video I made while experiencing a bit of an existential crisis.
CREATIVE BLOCK?
1- Smoke weed
2-Get your mind off it
3-Do something stupid
4-Go out
5-Learn something
6-Talk to strangers
7-Call your friends
(via Life is Beyoutiful)
Reiko Hamano. My favorite studio and piece from Hunter College MFA exhibition yesterday!
BRAINS. A very cool exhibit at Wellcome Collection in London!
“Brains’ asks not what brains do to us, but what we have done to brains, focusing on the bodily presence of the organ rather than investigating the neuroscience of the mind.”
“new free exhibition seeks to explore what humans have done to brains in the name of medical intervention, scientific enquiry, cultural meaning and technological change.”
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/brains.aspx
Drawing by Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1899) of neurons in the pigeon cerebellum
“It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it’s not easy.”
—Terence McKenna, “This World…and Its Double”
Building Happiness, architecture to make you smile! dying to start reading it! a surprise from @asamatteroffork that made me smile. (Taken with instagram)
A good question to ask ourselves from time to time: “Am I Living Up To My Creative Potential?” This global study by Adobe shows 75% of people don’t think they are.
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