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I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

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Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

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Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

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In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these pieces and build new castles.

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We are a collage of our interests, our influences, our inspirations, all the fragmentary impressions we've collected by being alive and awake to the world. Who we "are" is simply a finely curated catalog of those.

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Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.

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I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be in love with the reality of your own life.

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