✨ Where great ideas come from
A beautiful thought from Estée Lauder on seizing the moments in life that matter the most. https://t.co/KlWQOn2Zvj
People make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks, and embracing every possibility.
🚶♂️Writing Walks and the Awe of Spring
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Take your time
A lot of care went into curating the environment around the children—fascinating guests were invited, libraries were built, machines were brought home and disassembled—but the children were left with a lot of time to freely explore the interests that arose within these milieus.
A qualified guess is that they spent between one and four hours daily in... See more
A qualified guess is that they spent between one and four hours daily in... See more
Childhoods of Exceptional People
Exception people in their childhood had time to roam about and relied heavily on self-directed learning
At some point in their teenage years—and sometimes earlier—the future geniuses would apprentice themselves intellectually to someone with exceptional capacity in their field.
Childhoods of Exceptional People
Exception people did some kind of cognitive apprenticeships in their teenage.
Read, but don’t just read. Read the best book you can find.
Write, but don’t just write. Write the best idea you can conceive.
Write, but don’t just write. Write the best idea you can conceive.
James Clear • 3-2-1: On the power of going for it, the value of sharing what you know, and how to figure out what you really want
Commitment to the best.
Steve Jobs, on Microsoft:
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste, and I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their product.
Great ideas require taste
Talking or writing about the things you're interested in is a good way to generate new ideas. When you try to put ideas into words, a missing idea creates a sort of vacuum that draws it out of you. Indeed, there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
It's important to recognize we're in the lineage of art movements...I'm sure...you're trying to challenge yourself to invent something new. Try to be so avant-garde, that has zero [connection to the past]. That's impossible...We exist off the backs of many other things in iterations before us. So once you think about us as a collective, you then re... See more
Trung Phan • 9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh
Build on the work of a mentor (dead or alive). Odd are, these mentors did the same.