Tag: creative
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Avoiding the efficiency trap, heavy lifts, and the need to escape
“Build a life that you don’t need to escape from this year.”
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Sleep, happiness, and gifts
Your future self will look back on your life right now, and wish you could live it again. Not because you want to DO anything different. But because you will wish you enjoyed it more.
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Cultivating the muse
We have all felt it, those magical moments where great work appears to pour out of us in a flowing state. Where does it come from, and how do we cultivate it more often?
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Creative or quantitative
Are we getting too carried away with the ‘quantitative’ side of things in todays data-driven algorithmic world, at the expense of ‘creativity’? Quote to ponder: “What’s taught is it’s about trade offs. Now, the problem is that new way of doing it requires creativity. And in a world where everything, including the practice of economics…
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Don’t be so sloppy
Next time doing the task, do it as though someone you deeply respect is watching you. Do it as though it will stand the test of time.
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Simply begin
“Simply begin. Make things better by making things. You can always improve it later” Seth Godin I love the line – “make things better by making things”. How good is that feeling of self-accomplishment when we actually make something that is valuable or meaningful to us. By making things we also make ourselves better. It…
