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Woz on Creativity: Work Alone
“I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee… I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone……
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Richard Feynman's Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife
Where the hard edge of physics meets the vulnerable metaphysics of the human heart.
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How to give a great presentation: advice from a legendary adman (2012)
“No speech was ever too short.”
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Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Manuscripts
“Writing is excessive drudgery. It crooks your back, it dims your sight, it twists your stomach and your sides.”
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John Cleese on How to Make Your Life More Creative
“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”
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Vi Hart on Stravinsky's Atonal Compositions [video]
What experimental composers have to do with copyright wrongs and the neuroscience of language.
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Dostoyevsky's “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (2014)
“And it is so simple… You will instantly find how to live.”
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Bruce Lee’s Letters to Himself About Authenticity, Personal Development
“Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy… actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than …
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Umberto Eco's Anti-Library (2015)
How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.”
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The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Critical Thinking
Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.
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When Einstein Met Tagore
Collision and convergence in Truth and Beauty at the intersection of science and spirituality.
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Why We Hurt Each Other: Tolstoy’s Letters to Gandhi
“Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.”
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Why Haters Hate: Kierkegaard Explains the Psychology of Trolling in 1847
“Showing that they don’t care about me, or caring that I should know they don’t care about me, still denotes dependence.”
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What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)
From Medieval sword-fighters to Broca’s brains, or why the hand may hold the key to the link between creativity and mental illness.
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Ursula K. Le Guin on “Spare Time”
In praise of the mundane, unquantifiable, impractical activities that feed creative work and fill life with meaning.
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Ira Glass on the secret of success
On grit, storytelling, and bridging the gap between good taste and great work.
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James Burke’s Connections: A BBC History of Innovation
Science historian James Burke’s entire iconic Connections series, tracing the origin of innovation, is now available for free online.