Perhaps it is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The general idea with most memory techniques is to change whatever boring thing is being inputted into your memory into something that is so colorful, so exciting, and so different from anything you’ve seen before that you can’t possibly forget it.
— Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein
The next time you’re stumped on a creative challenge, head to a bustling coffee shop, not the library. As the researchers write in their paper, “[I]nstead of burying oneself in a quiet room trying to figure out a solution, walking out of one’s comfort zone and getting into a relatively noisy environment may trigger the brain to think abstractly, and thus generate creative ideas.
— Study of the Day: Why Crowded Coffee Shops Fire Up Your Creativity, by Hans Villarica (via geometricallypure)
Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice through practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.
— P.D. James (via amandaonwriting)
