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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
- Gustave Flaubert
- Gustave Flaubert
Nothing New Under The Sun
Cooking is a brilliant analogy for creativity: a chef’s talents hinge on his ability to bring ingredients together to create things. Even the most inspired chef in history did not make bacon appear by mere concentration, nor suggest to the divine forces that a ripe tomato should be on the list of evolution’s desired outcomes. Faith in the creativity-as-combinations view of the world helps creators in many ways. It means that if at any time you feel uncreative, the solution is to look more carefully at the combinations available to you, or to break apart something to see how it’s made. Increasing creativeness doesn’t re
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Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.
- T.S. Eliot
Curiosity
Consider the kinds of questions that kids ask. Sure, they may be silly or simplistic or out of bounds. But kids are also relentlessly curious and relatively unbiased. Because they know so little, they don't carry around the preconceptions that often stop people from seeing things as they are. When it comes to solving problems, this is a big advantage. Preconceptions lead us to rule out a huge set of possible solutions simply because they seem unlikely or repugnant; because they don't pass the smell test or have never been tried; because they don't seem sophisticated enough. But remember, it was a child who finally pointed out that the E
Perspective
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
- C.S. Lewis
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