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source: psychotherapy
The Subliminal Self (via WBUR-Boston; 47:49)
We think we’re thinking our way through life. Well, yes and no. We’re thinking, but our unconscious minds are enormously powerful drivers. We think, but they can decide – often before we’ve even asked the question. For decades, we’ve understood we’re open to “subliminal seduction.” Our unconscious mind can be wooed.
Freud called it a beast. New science is showing just how powerful the mind beneath can be, and – often – how helpful. It’s us. And it’s way ahead of us.
This hour, On Point: Leonard Mlodinow on the power of the unconscious mind.
Filed in: art
source: austinkleon
AUSTIN KLEON: Don't steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style.
Caught this NPR piece with columnist Crawford Kilian who advises young writers to avoid novels like On The Road and Catcher in The Rye, because they’re too good, and their styles are “so seductive” that they might “seduce a young writer into imitating them.”
God forbid!
crawford killian:
…what we find in one particular writer should be simply what we can use to say what we want to say, not just to be a megaphone or an echo chamber for some other writer… What you have to do is to pull back a little way and ask yourself, what is it about David Foster Wallace, or Charles Bukowski or J.D. Salinger that really gets to me? Is it a voice? Is it an attitude? Is it a vocabulary? And then try to apply what you have abstracted from that writer into a form that will you let you say your own thing in your own way.
And the best thing to do is to “talk back” to those writers, as if you were having a conversation:
What you need to do is bear in mind that you are entering a conversation with everybody you have ever read when you start writing. And you don’t want to simply say ditto, ditto, ditto to the authors that you’re conversing with. What you want to do is to say, “that’s a very interesting point you made. Now let me take it a little further and show you what could also be done in this regard.”
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Filed in: anatomy
source: crownedrose
Here, have an animation of a human skull… exploded and labelled.
This is by the team over at WitmerLab, which do my awesome dinosaur skull CT scans!
Pretty cool, right?
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Filed in: quotes
source: geneticist
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
-Albert Einstein
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Filed in: art
source: nevver
Andy Warhol’s MoMA Rejection Letter
Filed in: art
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Nobuyoshi Araki published “Sentimental Journey”, a book of pictures of his wife taken during their honeymoon. When she died a few years later, the Japanese photographer thought that those pictures were the most beautiful present he could ever had.
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Filed in: art creativity
source: nevver
5 Factors to Make Your Life More Creative, John Cleese
- Space (“You can’t become playful, and therefore creative, if you’re under your usual pressures.”)
- Time (“It’s not enough to create space; you have to create your space for a specific period of time.”)
- Time (“Giving your mind as long as possible to come up with something original,” and learning to tolerate the discomfort of pondering time and indecision.)
- Confidence (“Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.”)
- Humor (“The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.”)
source: mademan.com
How to Bribe Police in Foreign Countries
Today fellas, I’m going to teach you a skill that’s gotten me out of more sh!t than a chain-gang could shovel in a week.
That’s right. I’m going to teach you how to bribe the police, border patrol, customs & immigration or anyone else who just doesn’t seem to understand how important you are or how desperately you need to get the heck out of Asscrackistan in time for Canadian Thanksgiving.
Lame disclaimers aside (I never was much of a lawyer), let’s dive into this.
source: thoughtcatalog.com
Things You Learn After Your First Heartbreak
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You learn not to assume things. You learn not to assume that the day you spent together in bed and took photos of each other against that white wall was important to both of you. In reality, only one of you will ever care about that day. Only one of you will flinch when you see the white wall again. The other person will forget it ever happened. You’ll have to remind them, years later when you meet for coffee, about the pictures and you’ll feel so stupid for holding it so dear. Why do you have to be the one who remembers that day? You assumed that your memories would be the same. You didn’t know that one gets to forget and the other has to remember.
source: thoughtcatalog.com
I Want To Know You
I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like I’m surrounded by people with hard edges and sour faces but I get the sense that you’re different. Too often people seem to think that they have the answers to everything. Their faces are trapped in permascowls and they can’t be bothered with anything besides their own narcissism. You aren’t like that. You still ask questions. You’re still looking for the answers.
People with kind hearts make me feel dirty. Like I need to give my personality a bath or something. Rub it clean of my neuroses and judgments. But that’s a good thing. When someone inspires you to take a long hard look at yourself and question all of your bad habits, they’re someone worth keeping around. It’s all about finding that person who’s able to hold up a mirror to your life and cause you to reevaluate the noise. It’s all about wanting to be a better man.
source: thoughtcatalog.com
How To Become The Person You Want To Be
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You’re missing something. You’re watching everything pass you by and it’s making you anxious but you’re not quite sure how to catch up. A small part of you doesn’t even want to catch up. You’ve become comfortable in your complacency, comfortable in your own mistakes. Your slip ups have become some kind of solace. They’re yours to keep. Flaws have become some sick substitute for a relationship and you take them to bed with you.
You’re too young to be completely happy. You’re currently living your lost years and even though it’s taking you down, you’re not ready for the alternative. Something that no one likes to admit is that it sort of feels good to screw up. You don’t think you know exactly what you’re doing? You can pretend to be naive to spare everyone else’s feelings but let’s not get confused: you’re in control here. Every step of the way.
Filed in: quotes
source: thenewinquiry.com
“The desire to feel like an individual is a false need instigated by capitalism to make us productive in the social factory and to make us consume more in pursuit of a reified authenticity.”
Filed in: quotes
source: readbookonline.net
"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart
of man go together."
∴ John Ruskin, 1859, cf. Hockney (via)
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