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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

— Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change (1963)
2w ago

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

2mo ago

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. The key is to make your mistakes quickly and cheaply, not slowly and expensively.

2mo ago

We do not know what we may be able to do until we try, and we can never be certain beforehand that an experience is worth having until we have had it.

4mo ago
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Listen Hear #2: How a Violist Quit Classical Music but Made a Sublime Strings Record, Anyway

I realized those sounds were actually more interesting to me than some super pure note I could play really well had I been practicing a lot. These were things I'd never pay attention to or something I shouldn't even be playing when I was studying classical music. It's such a different mindset of approaching music. Instead of 'I've got to get it right,' it's more like, 'What can happen?'

6mo ago

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