214 ratings (4.27 avg)
0 reviews
more photos (1)

Jb

Add friend

Jb’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (117)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (215)
read-again‎ (17)
science-fiction‎ (54)
classic-science-fiction‎ (35)

thriller‎ (35)
fantasy‎ (22)
techno-thriller‎ (18)
non-fiction‎ (15)
modern-science-fiction‎ (13)
mystery‎ (9)

espionage-thriller‎ (7)
philosophy‎ (7)
psychology‎ (7)
medical-thriller‎ (6)
political-thriller‎ (6)
suspense‎ (6)

science‎ (5)
classics‎ (1)
history‎ (1)
soft-science-fiction‎ (1)
steampunk‎ (0)

Stats | More…

“In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very ‘gifted’ improvisers. Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

tags: hypocrisy, self-criticism, spontaneity

24 likes

“Being spontaneous is being able to respond with confidence; calmly trusting that, whatever the outcome, you will have a positive if challenging experience that will lead to greater self-awareness and success.”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

tags: intuition, self-awareness, spontaneity

39 likes

“Speaking of which, about assuming you had a condom—I just meant that you, with your experience, would be prepared for responsible sex, even if it were on the fly. An intelligent man is prepared for spontaneity.”
― Roberta Pearce, A Bird Without Wings

tags: condom, experience, intelligence, sex, spontaneity

7 likes

“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence which does not work according to plan, according to a one-at-a-time order of thought. Yet the concrete evidence of such an intelligence is right to hand in our own thoughtlessly ordered bodies. For the Tao does not 'know' how it produces the universe just as we do not 'know' how we construct our brains.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Way of Zen

tags: intelligence, philosophy, spontaneity, taoism

13 likes

“Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them."

[Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking (The Creativity Post, December 6, 2011)]”
― Michael Michalko