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"... pure Bach, his pleasure in working out musical ideas, his architectural structures large and small and his reverence for both the struggle and the peace that music can offer ..." - [1]
"Migrants are our brothers and sisters in search of a better life, far away from poverty, hunger, exploitation ..." - [2]
'With life as short as a half-taken breath,
don’t plant anything but love.'
(coleman barks? the glance?)
“There is the joy of focus, the experience of being completely immersed in what one is doing. There is the joy of dedication, the experience of being dedicated to the deed and not the outcome, the activity and not the goal. There is the joy of enduring, the experience of playing the game as hard as you can play it, of giving everything you have to the game and leaving nothing in the tank, no matter the experiential toll this exacts. This is the joy of defiance, wild and fierce: No, you will not break me, not here, not today.” - [3]
"... In a field of inquiry characterized by elusive concepts, dizzying “isms” and subtle taxonomies, philosophers are in continual battle to resist simplification. Infinite, or at least enormous, complexity is the nature of things, Professor Putnam argued, writing that “any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs in one.” ..." - [4]
– zimmmmmmmm 2016-04-01 08:20 UTC
Creativity, Insight, Agility
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Beyond_Zebra! is after "Z" – but what letters of the alphabet come before "A" ??
"Make explicit and systematic what was implicit and ad hoc"
"Leave less on the floor."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/opinion/how-to-leave-a-mark-on-people.html
... Such organizations often tell and retell a sacred origin story about themselves. Many experienced a moment when they nearly failed, and they celebrate the heroes who pulled them from the brink. They incorporate music into daily life, because it is hard not to become bonded with someone you have sung and danced with. They have a common ideal — encapsulated, for example, in the Semper Fi motto for the Marines. ...
and
... a shared goal, like winning the Super Bowl or saving the environment; initiation rituals, especially those that are difficult; a sacred guidebook or object passed down from generation to generation; distinct jargon and phrases that are spoken inside the culture but misunderstood outside it; a label, like being a KIPPster for a KIPP school student; and finally uniforms or other emblems, such as flags, rings, . ...
and
... there’s an intimacy and identity borne out of common love. Think of a bunch of teachers watching a student shine onstage or a bunch of engineers adoring the same elegant solution.
– zimm 2017-04-18 12:42 UTC
What is Mental Modeler?
Mental Modeler is modeling software that helps individuals and communities capture their knowledge in a standardized format that can be used for scenario analysis.
Based in Fuzzy-logic Cognitive Mapping (FCM), users can easily develop semi-quantitative models of environmental issues, social concerns or social-ecological systems in Mental Modeler by:
- Defining the important components of a system
- Defining the relationships between these components
- Running "what if" scenarios to determine how the system might react under a range of possible changes.
– Anonymous 2017-04-18 13:35 UTC
"Ethical issues aside ..."
– z 2017-06-08 11:11 UTC
Emily S comment:
"... There is a young lady on my project who projects confidence and vitality seemingly effortlessly. But she also displays signs of biases and other mental errors to which she may be unaware.
I theorize that the appearance of effortless confidence and sureness is highly unlikely for the intentionally metacognitive ..."
– z 2017-07-20 13:11 UTC
https://theconversation.com/people-with-depression-use-language-differently-heres-how-to-spot-it-90877
– z 2018-02-05 14:05 UTC
""Three things" – series of short poems – open, soft, meta-– permutations
– z 2018-02-15 13:01 UTC
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thoughts-thinking/201711/5-tips-critical-thinking
- Save your critical thinking for things that matter; things you care about.
- Do it in the morning.
- Take a step back.
- Play Devil's Advocate.
- Leave emotion at the door.
– z 2018-03-13 16:55 UTC
http://www.matthewschuler.co/why-creative-people-sometimes-make-no-sense/
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Most creative people have a great deal of physical energy, but are often quiet and at rest. They can work long hours at great concentration.
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Most creative people tend to be smart and naive at the same time. “It involves fluency, or the ability to generate a great quantity of ideas; flexibility, or the ability to switch from one perspective to another; and originality in picking unusual associations of ideas. These are the dimensions of thinking that most creativity tests measure, and that most creativity workshops try to enhance.”
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Most creative people combine both playfulness and productivity, which can sometimes mean both responsibility and irresponsibility. “Despite the carefree air that many creative people affect, most of them work late into the night and persist when less driven individuals would not.” Usually this perseverance occurs at the expense of other responsibilities, or other people.
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Most creative people alternate fluently between imagination and fantasy, and a rooted sense of reality. In both art and science, movement forward involves a leap of imagination, a leap into a world that is different from our present. Interestingly, this visionary imagination works in conjunction with a hyperawareness of reality. Attention to real details allows a creative person to imagine ways to improve them.
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Most creative people tend to be both introverted and extroverted. Many people tend toward one extreme or the other, but highly creative people are a balance of both simultaneously.
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Most creative people are genuinely humble and display a strong sense of pride at the same time.
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Most creative people are both rebellious and conservative. “It is impossible to be creative without having first internalized an area of culture. So it’s difficult to see how a person can be creative without being both traditional and conservative and at the same time rebellious and iconoclastic.”
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Most creative people are very passionate about their work, but remain extremely objective about it as well. They are able to admit when something they have made is not very good.
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Most creative people’s openness and sensitivity exposes them to a large amount of suffering and pain, but joy and life in the midst of that suffering. “Perhaps the most important quality, the one that is most consistently present in all creative individuals, is the ability to enjoy the process of creation for its own sake. Without this trait, poets would give up striving for perfection and would write commercial jingles, economists would work for banks where they would earn at least twice as much as they do at universities, and physicists would stop doing basic research and join industrial laboratories where the conditions are better and the expectations more predictable.”
– z 2018-03-15 15:14 UTC
category theory and metaphor structures – X is-a Y – and A:B::C:D – and sets of such – "a rose by any other name ..." – "... like a fish without a bicycle..."
– z 2018-11-01 10:01 UTC
The Messenger
by Mary Oliver
My work is loving the world.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird -
equal seekers of sweetness.
Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young and still not half-perfect? Let me
keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still and learning to be
astonished.
The phoebe, the delphinium.
The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.
Which is mostly rejoicing, since all ingredients are here,
which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart
and these body-clothes,
a mouth with which to give shouts of joy
to the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam
telling them all, over and over, how it is
that we live forever.
– z 2022-07-30 15:30 UTC