Essentially, creativity means spotting an opportunity to improve things by combining things from different domains.
The German philosopher Hegel put the idea in its grandest terms: we are creative, he wrote, when we ‘strip the world of its stubborn foreignness and adapt it to our needs.’
Nearly every human action is in some way an expression of how we think about ourselves. Life’s two most important questions are “Why?” and “Why not?”, but the trick is knowing which one to ask when. Any relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least. It is difficult to remove an …
It’s easier and more secure to stay broken the way we are than to choose a completely new path throwing new set of problems & challenges at us. Irrespective of what might have happened in your past, those events & experiences has absolutely no bearing at all on how you chose to live from this …
Being smart is all about having the ability to go deeper and extract more abstract information from deluge of data that keeps inundating our senses on consistent basis. Life in any given socio-economic system is too complicated and there’s no one correct path to understand all its nuances. Any sincere effort to understand it is …
It’s completely irrelevant that in how many areas you’re average or below average. What matters is your ability to identify that one area in which you are well above average. Once that’s sorted, everything will just start falling in places so that you could have a reasonably good life. The opinions of others are far …