Such a gift Maria. Thanks. A few of the gems include "combinatorial creativity", cross-disciplinary and indiscriminate curiosity, extracting meaning from mere information, my life and my living and my sense of purpose. Well spoken.
I feel this is a chat I want to come back to every few months. The kind you want to see from different states of mind and get the bigger picture.Thank you Maria... so much.
I love this talk and the inspiring phenomenon of Brain Pickings. Am trying to be helpful here; the idea of combinatorial creativity was described by Claude Levi-Strauss in a broader context as bricolage. Wonderful lecture!!
I try to follow Eckhart Tolle's teachings on presence and stillness. It has brought much peace into my life. However, as yet very little productivity. Perhaps that is yet to come. Although, I am 55yrs old and have been very productive in the past, and perhaps the rest of my life may simply be spent in peace and rest. Who knows.
I am having trouble finding how these two parts don't contradict each other. Maria references writers who talk about just showing up and putting in the work, never waiting for an ideal enviroment to create their writing. Then later she talks about how we have to be careful to not just work and not do things we don't want to do and work can be a great distraction. Showing up but being absent, however that seems like what is required for most things becuase we don't know when the greatness output will come.
