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For a brief moment he was “above time” and could look down upon life from a height. He had glimpsed some of mankind’s evolutionary possibilities. Sheer concentration, an effort of will, he believed, had induced the “timeless moment,” and indicated that the relentless flow of time, from life to death, could be halted.
Beyond the Robot
Gary Lachman
Reworking
I stumbled upon rework as a key variable when I tried to answer a question on Quora: what are some tips for advanced writers?
Since writing is something everybody does, logging 10,000 writing hours is something anyone can do. My aha! moment came when I realized that it isn’t the writing hours that count, it is the rewriting hours. Everybody writes. People who are trying to walk the path towards mastery rewrite. I won’t say more about this variable. If you want a worked example, read my Quora answer. If you want a quick and pleasant read on the subject, Jason Fried’s Rework gets at some of the essential themes (though perhaps in a slightly gimmicky way).
The Calculus of Grit
Venkatesh Rao
16. Balaji's Transformer:
Have a written idea? Draw it.
Have a visual idea? Write it.
Reformatting an idea lets you see it from a new POV.
Walt Disney turned a dull business plan into a diagram, revealing new connections and opening new pathways of thought.
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