Beauty, ideals, virtue, art, creation — transcend the artist, the creator, the artisan and the engineer, the philosopher, the object Not merely as an idealised ideal, which we can’t touch Of course the ideal is our vision, then we merely strive to get closer to it, but can never reach it The former is …
Tag: Creativity
do it MEDIOCRE vs PROPER vs EXCELLENT
Let’s consider the stages from SHIT to EXCELLENCE: poorly, mediocre, properly, excellently (robustly), too well POORLY will fuck you up almost immediately -the wheels will fall off -you’ll be late by 3h -MULTIPLE things will magically go wrong -everything is of obvious poor quality visible to the naked eye -unpleasant in taste -really dangerous, …
Extreme Urgency Is A Form Of Creativity
Extreme urgency is a form of creativity It’s creativity applied to SOLVING the problem… faster We get more creative when the problem is more hard We create a solution That’s what creativity is for, as far as I’m concerned We don’t customarily think of speeding something up as a CREATIVE process We think …
Be More Progressive AND More Conservative
Without the legacy of our ancestors, we wouldn’t be able to accomplish NONE of the things we accomplish today Obviously If you still lived in a cave — chance are you wouldn’t be able to build your own pick up truck, then go to your local mall, built by man of your generation using techniques …
The Insightful Create Insights For The Regular To Benefit From And Repeat
Only insightful people create new insights But regular people can nevertheless UNDERSTAND those insights, or at least TAKE ADVANTAGE of them BUT this doesn’t make the two on par CREATING is not the same as appreciating BUILDING is not the same as using the thing, obviously Of course there are also people who …
Force Yourself To Joke
Literally force yourself to make a joke Right here right now, make a joke Look around and force a joke about what you see Or about what you think Or about anything Then laugh hard, if it’s worth laughing If it’s not, then find another joke Build upon the previous joke with a …
Being Creative Means Actually CREATING
Being creative means CREATING. Creating means ACTUALLY CREATING REALITY. “Creative ideas” are only as creative as much they create reality, IMPACT reality. Yes, a purely theoretical idea CAN be powerfully creative. Even conceived just in theory — it can have practical implications — which will be immediately recognised by the world and …
Creativity -> Business -> Art -> Consciousness
1. CREATIVITY is human prerogative 2. CREATIVITY is first practical — then transcendental 3. The practical value of creativity is solving practical problems. It’s as good as well it solves problems, as good as hard problems it solves 4. The transcendental value of creativity is how effectively it elevates consciousness, and how high 1. …
Be More Imitative AND More Original
You should be more imitative AND more original How’s that possible? Isn’t it mutually exclusive? It’s possible if you’re poor at imitating It’s possible if you’re poor at being original It’s exactly what happens: You call it originality — but you’re just poor at imitating Or you call it imitating and “doing what …
Noble Escapes Are Still Escapes
Consider what it truly means to “use something as an escape” To use something for a specific purpose is to NOT use it for a different purpose, E.g. you could use an axe to chop down a tree and build yourself a wooden house — or you could use an axe to chop someone’s fucking …