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when I refer to “creative living,” I am speaking more broadly. I’m talking about living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.
“For most of us, especially for businessmen, in whose eyes nature does not exist, unless it be in its strict utility relationship with their business interests, the fantastic reality of life becomes strangely blunted. M. G. registers it constantly; his memory and his eyes are full of it.”
― The Painter of Modern Life
― The Painter of Modern Life
“And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“you succeed in venture capital by backing the right deals, not by haggling over valuations.”
― The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption
― The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption
“Only when we are at our most playful can divinity finally get serious with us.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“Studying biases can in fact make you more vulnerable to overconfidence and confirmation bias, as you come to see the influence of cognitive biases all around you—in everyone but yourself.”
― Rationality: From AI to Zombies
― Rationality: From AI to Zombies
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