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I’ve spent nearly forty years thinking about how to help smart, ambitious people work effectively with one another. The way I see it, my job as a manager is to create a fertile environment, keep it healthy, and watch for the things that
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“We all get blocked. We are all plagued by an inner critic. And no one is immune to the creativity-halting effects of negative criticism.”
― Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk: And Other Truths About Being Creative
― Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk: And Other Truths About Being Creative
“Things – even people – have a way of leaking into each other,’ I explain, ‘like flavours when you cook. Ilse Lubin’s suicide, for example, leaked into old Aadam and sat there in a puddle until he saw God.”
― Midnight's Children
― Midnight's Children
“The performance artist Marina Abramović puts it directly: “If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.”
― Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
― Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
“An amateur is defensive. The professional finds learning (and even, occasionally, being shown up) to be enjoyable; they like being challenged and humbled, and engage in education as an ongoing and endless process.”
― Ego Is the Enemy
― Ego Is the Enemy
“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
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