#creative thought

[icreatewhatibelieve]

In order to effect true positive change in your experience, you must disregard how things are—as well as how others are seeing you—and give more of your attention to the way you prefer things to be. With practice, you will change your point of attraction and will experience a substantial change in your life experience.

Abraham Hicks

[crsedore]

[emilianodelrefugio]

The Precision of Life

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.”— Richard P. Feynman If life were arbitrary, there would be no reason for hope, or for intelligence, or for common sense, or for learning, or for the improvement and adaptation of species, or for the creation of culture and the benefits that arise from science and civilization.If everything were…

[raffaellopalandri]

Illegitimate Thought: Deleuze’s Ontology of Creative Rupture

In Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze does not merely challenge the history of philosophy—he overturns its foundational presuppositions, initiating a project in which the very conditions of thinking are rethought from within a field of immanence and generativity. Among the constellation of incisive formulations that emerge throughout the work, none captures this insurgent ambition more…

[protoslacker]

In their intimate, human scale, he saw an antidote to mechanized media, a means of escaping the dominion of information empires. A spoken word may be as evanescent as a tweet or a snap, but the acts of talking and listening — together, in one place — remain unmatched as vehicles for critical, creative, and communal thought. They serve to test and refine knowledge even as they carry it, from one person to another, through time. 

Nicholas Carr in The New Atlantis. The Tyranny of Now

There’s no time like the present to revisit the warning of forgotten media theorist Harold Innis: “Enormous improvements in communication have made understanding more difficult.”

[epicstoriestime]

A Legacy of Thought

Tell us one thing you hope people say about you. Peaceful and Reflective I hope they’ll say I helped them think differently—not for the sake of being different, but in a way that felt uniquely their own. I hope they’ll remember the moments when I nudged their perspective just enough for them to see the world in a new, brighter light. I’m not looking to leave behind grand gestures or seismic…

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[josephkravis]

No Matter How We Envision the Future, It Won’t Match Our Expectations

No matter how we envision the future, it won’t match our expectations. It's the unforeseen events that reshape our journey and lead to personal growth.

In life, we try to map out everything: our goals, our next steps, even the next year or two. Yet, despite the best-laid plans, what happens is rarely what we envisioned. Why? Because of the exceptions. The unexpected shifts, the moments of serendipity, the obstacles, and the detours that carve out paths we couldn’t have dreamed of. These exceptions, though, are what fuel growth. They reveal the…

No Matter How We Envision the Future, It Won’t Match Our Expectations