Hermione Granger: Actually I’m highly logical which allows me to look past extraneous detail and perceive clearly that which others overlook.
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The secret to mastering your time is to systematically focus on importance and suppress urgency.
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Do not be afraid to want a lot.
Things take a long time; practice patience.
Avoid compulsively making things worse.
Finish what you start.
Often people start out by thinking about all the things that they can’t do. Once you take that path, it’s very hard to get off of it. Shoot high and shoot often.
In this interview on The Great Discontent, the inimitable Debbie Millman (who is newly on SoundCloud!) offers five pieces of advice for young people starting out in any creative field – a fine addition to our running record of sage advice.
Complement with Neil Gaiman’s advice on the creative life and treat yourself to Millman’s sublime Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design.
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The role of brain chemistry in entrepreneurship: goal setting.
Collecting wins, no matter how small, can chemically wire you to move mountains by causing a repeated release of dopamine. But to get going you have to land those first few successes.
The very act of giving your emotional brain a detailed portrait of your end goal also ensures that, even inadvertently, you will take the steps needed to steer yourself toward it.
ortega y cassette: Mi g-g-generación.
Ahora resulta que hay toda una generación de creadores más joven que la nuestra. Durante años, los que creaban se dividían en tres: los que admirábamos, los que envidiábamos y los que detestábamos. Las categorías se sobreponían, pero por regla general en las dos últimas estaban nuestros…
Yo nací en el segundo cuarto de los 80’s y no soy artista pero tengo una sensación parecida.
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What does collective intelligence mean? It’s important to realize that intelligence is not just something that happens inside individual brains. It also arises with groups of individuals. In fact, I’d define collective intelligence as groups of individuals acting collectively in ways that seem intelligent. By that definition, of course, collective intelligence has been around for a very long time. Families, companies, countries, and armies: those are all examples of groups of people working together in ways that at least sometimes seem intelligent.
It’s also possible for groups of people to work together in ways that seem pretty stupid, and I think collective stupidity is just as possible as collective intelligence…
What’s new, though, is a new kind of collective intelligence enabled by the Internet. Think of Google, for instance, where millions of people all over the world create web pages, and link those web pages to each other. Then all that knowledge is harvested by the Google technology so that when you type a question in the Google search bar the answers you get often seem amazingly intelligent, at least by some definition of the word “intelligence”….
Our future as a species may depend on our ability to use our global collective intelligence to make choices that are not just smart, but also wise.
Thomas W. Malone, director of MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, on humanity’s evolving ‘global brain.’ Also see Christof Koch on the evolution of the global übermind.
