May 27, 2024

“art is the act of navigating without a map”

12:43 AM

“Detach yourself from conventional notions of what creativity means, and you’ll see it everywhere.”

12:50 AM

“I started to enjoy writing more, I created a challenge for myself, answering at least one question at the start of every workda”

1:43 PM

“argued, “critical thinking without hope is cynicism. But hope without critical thinking is naïvet”

1:47 PM

“He urged me to “believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.”[148](private://read/01hwd63rng9b2hyx5pmhw2b2s8/#endnote-content-148)”

1:48 PM

“The cure for such cynicism, he said, would “only come when intellectuals can find a career that embodies their creative impulses.”[15](private://read/01hwd63rng9b2hyx5pmhw2b2s8/#endnote-content-150)”

1:49 PM

“The biggest challenge to creating your virtuous cycle and one of the most dangerous failure modes of the pathless path is cynicis”

1:51 PM

“how do you begin to figure out what you want to do when there are not many limits?”

1:53 PM

“One of the goals of the pathless path is to make commitments: to a type of work, ways of living, creative projects, or a “conversation” with the worl”

1:54 PM

“Instead of thinking about what I want to do and how I want to live, I start instead with what I don’t want to be doing and what failure looks like. B”

2:02 PM

“The problem with conformity, Fromm argued, is that it leads to an existence that is too rigid, routine, and predictable. T”

2:44 PM