We've reduced play to be this cherry on top of an already good life. But from a scientific perspective, it is much more fundamental than that. Play is what happens anytime we choose to do something without knowing exactly where it's going to end up.
I wanted to create a space where we could reconnect with our childlike wonder, which I think especially for black people and minorities can get stripped away over life and you don't even realize when it's happening, how it's happening. It it's getting stripped from you day by day through our experience.
We are living through a play deprivation crisis. We've systematically removed everything that makes play what it is — the spontaneity, the freedom, the wonder — from all parts of adult life and replaced it with efficiency and achievement. And in doing so, we're losing the very survival skills that we need the most right now.
I could see myself becoming that Hari Krishna, wanting to testify about the greatest love in my life, which is reading. So great is my need to share this love that it outweighs my significant need for privacy.
Most people assume that creativity is a fixed trait — you either have it or you don't. But research suggests that creativity is less like a gift and more like a muscle: it can be developed, strengthened, and yes, sometimes exhausted.
Most people think about creativity as something that just strikes you — like a bolt of lightning. But research suggests that creativity is less about sudden inspiration and more about the associations your brain makes between concepts. The more unusual and distant those associations, the more creative the idea.
Most people think about creativity as a gift — something you either have or you don't. But research suggests that creativity is less like a trait and more like a muscle: it can atrophy if you don't use it, and it can grow stronger with practice.
Psychologist Ap Dijksterhuis explores the hidden mental processes that lead to these moments of inspiration, and why breakthroughs often emerge when the mind is at rest.
AI is not built to do that ever. I mean the the the the tool itself is built to give you the most predictable outcome possible, the antithesis of what we're trying to do when we make a TV show or a film.
I do think the purpose of life is exploration. So, how could answers to the unknowable questions of the universe from a from an advanced species, how could that not be catnip? How could you not want to go? But my life as a writer has been about exploration here. How could I not stay?
Most people think that creativity is something you either have or you don't — that it's a fixed trait, like eye color. But researchers who study creativity say this belief is not only wrong, it may actually be preventing people from thinking creatively.
We worry so much about the blank page or the blank canvas. But research suggests that placing too high a premium on originality can actually be a creativity killer. When we feel we have to be original, we become self-conscious, and self-consciousness is the enemy of creativity.
For centuries, people have described creativity as something mysterious: a flash of insight, a whisper from the muse, a sudden idea that seems to arrive out of nowhere.
Most people assume that creativity is a trait — you either have it or you don't. But research suggests that creativity is less like a fixed ability and more like a muscle: it can be strengthened with practice, and it can also atrophy when it goes unused.
Most people think of creativity as the production of something new. But Ogas and Rose argue that creative breakthroughs almost always involve making unusual connections between existing ideas. They say that highly creative people are essentially librarians of their own knowledge and experience — constantly cross-referencing and combining things in ways that others don't think to do.
The problem is that we're often led to believe that we need to think outside the box, but actually the most creative solutions often come from people who have gone so deep into a box that they understand the nuances and the constraints so well that they can find new pathways within it that others couldn't see.
Will Durant spent his whole life worrying that he was a failure. He wrote 13 volumes of The Story of Civilization over 50 years, a project so vast it seems almost incomprehensible. And he was worried he was a failure.
What if the actual reward is not accomplishment but the act of creating? The finished products and trappings of creative accomplishment are often seen as the goal. But I believe that the act of making is like oxygen. When the making stops, it becomes hard to breathe.
What do the inventor of the periodic table, the novelist Isabel Allende, and the almost-creators of the iPhone have in common? Join author David Epstein and EconTalk's Russ Roberts to explore a counterintuitive idea: that boundaries, and not unlimited freedom, often make us more creative, productive, and fulfilled.
It is a fragile environment in the writing room. And if you can make everybody comfortable enough, that's why like the three of us, we we write together so much. There's nothing I would be uncomfortable saying in front of either one of them.
It was more boring than horrible. Exactly. like that black is like the default like for art like I want colorful I want you know prints like for just a basic black gowns there was like a lot of that.
If you allow yourself to live a life where you can take these bold, unique choices and build on top of them, you can move away from doing things that are different into doing things that are wonderful.
With Victor Frankenstein, he had no doubts. The whole movie, he has very little doubt, which was a very freeing thing to play up until the moment of creation. And then after that, it's kind of all doubt. And that's when he kind of goes in within himself and ossifies. But Josh is very different. Josh is mostly doubt and mostly reactionary.
You can just take an idea, you can write it in, and then something can get created for you. But very importantly, you can still move into the Canva's object editor and lay things out, collaborate, edit away.
I wanted to do this show that didn't exist when I was a kid, and I knew the talent was out there. You know, I found Bruno Mars and put him on the show when he was two feet tall. I wanted those things that Johnny didn't do.
I always love having at least one move or one groove that my mama can do, in a video. But I think it allows dancers and non-dancers alike to feel like, "Oh, I like that move. I can do that whenever the song comes on."
I always put 1,000 percent of my heart and time and energy into anything I create. And people can feel heart, they can feel passion. And I think it translates through the screen.
The story of black comedy, it has always moved through contradictions like that. Moments of limitation that eventually open the door for something bigger and something better.
I literally loved writing from the very first time I read Nikki Giovanni's poetry. Loved it. And for me, one of the most powerful things about Nikki Giovanni is she made the ordinary so beautiful.
I literally loved writing from the very first time I read Nikki Giovanni's poetry. Loved it... I could smell the lotion between my grandmother's legs when she would braid my hair when I read Nikki Giovanni. Like, I love that. I wanna write like that.
Creativity and talent and drive are not the only things that make authors. Writing is something that requires quite a lot of time and time is very expensive and the piece that you need to have that time is expensive.
When there are no words for some things, that's where the blues comes in, that's where the music. And yet another affirmation for me, in terms of how people have received this work, it's incredibly affirming that audiences, many audiences, have made the connection between the pain of what I was experiencing and the birth of the music.
India has a rich and vibrant culture but yet it's not really looked at by designers so seriously because it's seen as traditional and handmade and design tends to be mechanized. We can bring some of that humanity and the handmade quality into the work that we do as designers.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
