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Art VS Everything Else

I think that art versus everything else is an archaic way of thinking, stuck in the past… pre “Internet-almost-everybody-has-access-to-all-information” era. Of course, that’s what my parents, being artists themselves taught me, but I did grow beyond that tribal view of the world that culture offered most people back then.

There is power and magic for humanity as a whole in the intersection between creativity, flow and the limits of human performance and that’s happening and being pushed forward across all kinds of disciplines, from art to sports to science to business to media and everything in between; and that’s far more interesting to me that some esoteric form of value.

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Tres mil millones de genios creativos… ¡y tú también!

En la mañana en The creative curve de Allen Gannett aprendí algo que me conmovió, me produjo un sentimiento muy bello y me saco unas lágrimas: a partir de un IQ de 86, el IQ no predice acertadamente la habilidad de las personas para generar pensamiento divergente (creatividad).

Una persona con un IQ nivel “genio” de 150 no es por ello capaz de idear más soluciones a un problema que una persona con un IQ promedio. El factor determinante del desempeño creativo es la práctica, no el IQ.

Alrededor del 80% de la humanidad tiene un IQ por encima de 86. Eso significa, que hay viviendo más de tres mil millones de personas con el potencial creativo de los genios que nos han enseñado a idolatrar.

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There are three main avenues on which one arrives at meaning in life. The first is by creating a work or doing a deed. The second is by experiencing something or encountering someone; in other words, meaning can be found not only in work but also in love…Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself.

Viktor Frankl

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Authenticity, reframing emotions and being (aka creating) your true self

Often I’ve been told when I reframe my feelings about something that that’s not authentic, that that’s not being me… With all due respect, I think that me feeling whatever comes with no decision making or reframing on my end of experience, that’s not being authentic or “you”, that’s being an echo from the past, that’s being your parents and society’s teachings and overall, that’s being dumb… I don’t want to be no echo from the past, even if I am a bit dumb more often than not.

But, why Is that being dumb?

Because you are in complete control of how you work with your emotions, what do you choose to think about them and how do YOU decide to feel.

And since emotions are smart, as everything inside you is, they learn, and sooner rather than later they know that if you have an emotion of fear, that’s excitement! It’s time to up attention and move forward! And if you got an angry emotion, its time to be compassionate and centered and silent… And you can then start using your emotions as triggers for the life you want to feel.

Or you can keep letting the past dictate your life… your choice.

You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.

Bill Bryson

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1 13 de temazcal

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Knock knock

– Who’s there?
– We, the One, exploring thyself in a sea of infinities, that reveal aspects of me, while being themselves holograms that contain the whole in each one of you, beautiful little drops.

 

Meditate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe. For in a sense, all things are mutually woven together and therefore have an affinity for each other—for one thing follows after another according to their tension of movement, their sympathetic stirrings, and the unity of all substance.

Marcus Aurelius

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Somos espejos

Cualquier característica que me atrae de ti, está en mi; cualquier característica que te atrae de mi, esta en ti. Somos personas completas buscando despertar a través de sus reflejos.

Si me atrae el poder con que manifiestas tu pasión.

Si me atrae tu inteligencia.

Si me atrae tu valentía, tú coraje para la vida.

Si me atrae tu sentido del humor.

Si me atrae tu sensualidad.

Todo lo que me atrae de ti.

… esas cosas me atraen de ti por que están en mi, ya sea que estén más concientes y quiera compartirlas, o que estén más dormidas y quiera recordarmelas… si no fuera así, no podría ni apreciarlas al grado de sentirme atraído hacia ellas.

Y es un alibio eso, es reconfortante saberlo; que somos más de lo que recordamos de nosotros mismos y que podemos irnos descubriendo a través de lo que nos mueve de los otros.

Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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