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Invention fights specialisation at every turn.

Robert Twigger

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You are more than one thing

You are more than one thing. You are more than a label that is put on you by yourself or someone else. We limit our abilities and the abilities of others when we curate small specific areas that are never touched by divergent thinking. Scientists only talked to similar scientists. Musicians only talking to similar musicians. The list goes on. But we don’t have to be one thing. We don’t have to be “just a mathematician” or “just an artist”, we can be something much greater than that. We can be a human. Humans have various interests and urges and needs that can’t always be filled by one corner of life. The fear of not being a specialist is great, but so is the cost of only being a specialist. Take a moment. Really ask yourself when the last time you put yourself in the path of difference, of divergent ways of seeing the world, of creating, and really allowed it to work within you without judging or dismissing or running away from it. That is the place to start, with seeking difference both within yourself and then within others.

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Neurologically, the creative process should look the same regardless of whether a person is an artist or a scientist

Rex Jung

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I think we take for granted that we rely heavily on science creativity, whether we realize it or not

Rex Jung

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Art and science. To those who practice neither, they seem like polar opposites, one data-driven, the other driven by emotion. One dominated by technical introverts, the other by expressive eccentrics. For those of us involved in either field today (and many of us have a hand in both), we know that the similarities between how artists and scientists work far outweigh their stereotypical differences. Both are dedicated to asking the big questions placed before us: “What is true? Why does it matter? How can we move society forward?” Both search deeply, and often wanderingly, for these answers. We know that the scientist’s laboratory and the artist’s studio are two of the last places reserved for open-ended inquiry, for failure to be a welcome part of the process, for learning to occur by a continuous feedback loop between thinking and doing.

John Maeda

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It’s your life — but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else or a community or a pressure group, you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt