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“Now” gets bigger and slower and richer and more evident. You turn into a Sherlock Holmes of observing the present instant. From a snapshot of a moment, you can make decisions about what you feel, what the other person must be feeling, and what must have happened to get us here.
How to Be the Greatest Improviser on Earth
Will Hines
Humans share knowledge. We trade ideas and exchange information. In The Rational Optimist, Ridley likens this process to sex, and his comparison is more than just florid metaphor. Sex is an exchange of genetic information, a cross-pollination that makes biological evolution cumulative. Ideas too follow this trajectory. They meet and mate and mutate. We call this process learning, science, invention—but whatever the term, it’s exactly what Isaac Newton meant when he wrote: “If I have seen further, it is only because I am standing on the shoulders of giants.”
Abundance
Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
Just tell your story. All of it. Forget the strategies. Start in the wrong place and end in the long place. Ramble. The goal is to return to that moment as best as possible in order to find its meaning.
The other way of discovering the meaning of a moment is to ask yourself why you do the things you do.
Storyworthy
Matthew Dicks and Dan Kennedy
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