They say "discontent drives innovation" and our willingness to creatively engage in the world is to fix it, to make it better.
Yet, this rings hollow, not accounting for the creative play of children and contented adults. It conveniently ignores that creativity often comes not from desperation, but from quiet stability that allows curiosity to flourish.
Tag: motivation
- Theme: Culture
Discontent Drives Innovation?
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1–2 minutes - Theme: Culture
The Flotsam Foundation
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1–2 minutesTruth seeking requires curiosity and tenacity. It is somewhat pedantic and boring to question almost everything all the time, but the layered strata of sediment this persistent inquiry sweeps aside reveals our current foundation to be nothing but flotsam.
In this way, it is brave to be pedantic: to discover you are standing on nothing. - Theme: Growth
Wanting is free
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1–2 minutesThe things we want have a cost. Wanting is free.
Once your desire, craving, or compulsion is fulfilled, another one will arise. This is a permanent dynamic. But right now, you are breathing and just fine.
Do we really want the “wanting”? Do we crave pursuit itself?