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When we asked creative persons what explains their success, one of the most frequent answers—perhaps the most frequent one—was that they were lucky. Being in the right place at the right time is an almost universal explanation.
Creativity
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
. I always keep a Word file open on my laptop where I write my dreams and then can later insert any notes or thoughts relevant to them. Write down every noticed detail, every noticed element, every noticed emotional reaction, and so on. We will see later why each detail in a dream is like a word or term in a larger text; if you noticed it, it means it is significant, no matter how stupid or trivial it appears on the surface.
Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self
Eric Wargo
Slow down. Stand still. Breathe. Let the forest find you. Then you can begin to ask yourself the hardest questions: Who am I? What do I believe about the world? What do success and failure mean to me (and not to everyone else)? What kind of adult do I want to be? And, most helpful, how have I been complicit in creating the conditions in my life that I say I don’t want?
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