Monday, February 24, 2014

Curiosity and choice - and how you allocate your time determines your life

"Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. They interact with each other and with other mental forces in the same brain, in neighboring brains, and thanks to global communication, in far distant, foreign brains.”

From http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/08/01/networked-knowledge-combinatorial-creativity/#curiosity

Ideas have retained some of the properties of organisms. Like them, they tend to perpetuate their structure and to breed; they too can fuse, recombine, segregate their content.” ~ Jacques Monod

Information===> Insight ====> Idea.

Jim Coudal, one of my big creative and curatorial heroes, once said:
Our number one value isn’t in any of the skills we have. It’s that we’re essentially curious.”
But curiosity without direction can be a taxing and ultimately unproductive endeavor. Choice is how we tame and channel and direct our curiosity, where we choose to allocate our time and energy, and ultimately, what we choose to pay attention to.

"Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life’s strategy.”

 

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