Entries from February 2009

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Elizabeth Gilbert on Creativity

This is easily the greatest 20 minutes of I spent of my life in the past year, and one of the BEST orations I’ve ever seen. If you do anything creative, watch it.

Monday, February 9th, 2009

The way I see it #76 (via my Starbucks cup this morning)

The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating – in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to [...]

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Saying what’s been said.

The disappointment of hearing something someone has already said can be completely crushing. From a stand-up comic doing a crappy version of a previously brilliant joke, to a musician mimicking an artist who was adventurous and creative nothing bothers me more than people putting no creative thought into what they say and do.
Oddly enough, [...]