Strategy Consultant. Executive Coach. Strengths-based Productivity Trainer. Favorite problems: Mapping illegible narratives, metacreativity, art+life synthesis.
Los Angeles Metro Area
Joined March 2009
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(1/10) Here are some insights from the research I've been conducting for the Creative Vision Project, a program I'm launching soon to help creatives build a deep and sustainable art practice.
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The neuroscience research on willpower makes clear that your Anterior Mid-Cingulate Cortex (aMCC) is a key hub for leaning into undesired effort.
Your aMCC it is activated by engaging in behaviors that you don’t want to do.
Your aMCC/willpower can grow throughout the lifespan by regularly doing undesired things*, that are hard.
*Do not make these psychologically or physically damaging, of course.
This is all covered in detail, with protocols and references and in conjunction with the (controversial) psychology research on willpower here: hubermanlab.com/episode/how-…
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.— Attributed to Groucho Marx inspiringquotes.com/8-quotes…
Dream job? The Japanese man who gets paid to do nothing reuters.com/lifestyle/oddly-…
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from Richard Brody (film critic from The New Yorker)...
Thrilled that Marlon Fuentes's Bontoc Eulogy, from 1995, which I first saw only last year (thanks to @OVIDtv) is coming in May to the @criterionchannl newyorker.com/culture/the-fr…
“I’m having a hard time deciding whether I’m obviously oblivious to things, or whether I’m oblivious to obvious things.” - Fu Ling Yu
(9/10) Each of these skills has its own learning path, depending on where one is in the journey. These are the real survival skills in being a serious artist - - the antidotes to the noise, fear, doubt, anxiety, and other emotional states that get in the way of The Work.
Lon Fuentes retweeted
I am overwhelmed by your response! Thanks to all of you. Another image from 2009, titled flares - artistic visualisation of wavelets. My special interest: crossing borders between mathematics and visual arts.
