Unboxed: find the reluctant geniuses in your midst
“People who believe in the power of talent tend not to fulfill their potential because they’re so concerned with looking smart and not making mistakes. But people who believe that talent can be developed are the ones who really push, stretch, confront their own mistakes and learn from them.” – Carol Dweck (Stanford Psychology professor, whose...
What makes Genius : Part 6 : Context
Almost all struggles for those infected with genius is a struggle of context. Wrong place, wrong time and the gift isn’t activated. Or is only realised well after their lives have played out. When things are set in the right context we have a sense of their relevance to us. Life flourishes in a relatively...
Learn to sell your art, so you don’t have to sell your soul
And I use “art” very loosely here when I mean the creative products of your head and your hands and the tools you use to extend the reach of both. Whether writers, filmmakers, musicians, webdesigners, potters, poets, dancers, landscapers, crafters, carpenters, architects, hatters; whatever the avenue for the creative imperative to realise itself, these endeavours...
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HUNTER of GENIUS [pioneers, explorers & evolving tools]
What a massive waste spending our time trying to live according to anyone else’s spec but our own. But so many of us do, for the sake of the mortgage, our family/friends/social-standing or because we just haven’t figured out what our own groove is. Despite what seems sexier or better paid or accrues nods of...
new social currency ATM : the Maverick mojo is back
It’s hard to quantify the small dizzy delight we find in discovering something out in the world that simply makes us happy, no explanation needed. Julie Andrews floods the mental stereo like peach-sugar (what, you have no idea what I mean? see the video at the end to absorb the culture young weedhopper).. Maverick magazine...
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