“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.”

It’s one of the theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

All advice is Autobiographical

How does an artist look at the world? First, you figure out what’s worth stealing, then you move on to the next thing. That’s about all there is to it. When you look at the world this way, you stop worrying about what’s “good” and what’s “bad”—there’s only stuff worth stealing, and stuff that’s not worth stealing. Everything is up for grabs. If you don’t find something worth stealing today, you might find it worth stealing tomorrow or a month or a year from now

How to look at the world (like an artist)

Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers,﻿ “I steal them.”

The writer Jonathan Lethem has said that when people call something “original,” nine out of ten times they just don’t know the references or the original sources involved.What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original. It’s right there in the Bible: “There is nothing new under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9)

Nothing is original

“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.”

Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideasHere’s a trick they teach you in art school. Draw two parallel lines on a piece of paper: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________How many lines are there? There’s the first line, the second line, but then there’s a line of negative space that runs between them.See it? 1 + 1 = 3.

The Genealogy of Ideas

“We were kids without fathers . . . so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.”

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there’s a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income. Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.

Garbage in, Garbage out

“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”

Marcel Duchamp said, “I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.” This is actually a pretty good method for studying—if you try to devour the history of your discipline all at once, you’ll choke.chew on one thinker—writer, artist, actirole model—you really love. Study everything there is to know about that thinker. Then find three people that thinker loved, and find out everything about them. Repeat this as many times as you can. Climb up the tree as far as you can go. Once you build your tree, it’s time to start your own branch.

Climb your own family tree

School is one thing. Education is another. The two don’t always overlap. Whether you’re in school or not, it’s always your job to get yourself an education. You have to be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else—that’s how you’ll get ahead. Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don’t ask a question before you Google it. You’ll either find the answer or you’ll come up with a better question.Always be reading. Go to the library. There’s magic in being surrounded by books.

School yourself

“Whether I went to school or not, I would always study.”

Carry a notebook and a pen with you wherever you go. Get used to pulling it out and jotting down your thoughts and observations. Copy your favorite passages out of books. Record overheard conversations. Doodle when you’re on the phone. Keep a swipe file. A file to keep track of the stuff you’ve swiped from others. It can be digital or analog—it doesn’t matter what form it takes, as long as it works. Just take pictures of things with your camera phone. See something worth stealing? Put it in the swipe file. Need a little inspiration? Open up the swipe file.

Save your thefts for later

“It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.”

You’re ready. Start making stuff.You might be scared to start. That’s natural. There’s this very real thing that runs rampant in educated people. It’s called “impostor syndrome.”

make things, Know Thyself.

this idea is very important to me because it teaches me to hoe to think and make yourself productive and become a top in what you are in.

Unlock your creativity. An inspiring guide to creativity in the digital age, Steal Like an Artist presents ten transformative principles that will help readers discover their artistic side and build a more creative life.   Nothing is original, so embrace influence, school yourself through the work of others, remix and reimagine to discover your own path. Follow interests wherever they take you—what feels like a hobby may turn into you life’s work. Forget the old cliché about writing what you know: Instead, write the book you want to read, make the movie you want to watch.   And finally, stay Smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring in the everyday world so that you have the space to be wild and daring in your imagination and your work.  “Brilliant and real and true.”—Rosanne Cash

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You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side. When Mr. Kleon was asked to address college students in upstate New York, he shaped his speech around the ten things he wished someone had told him when he was starting out. The talk went viral, and its author dug deeper into his own ideas to create Steal Like an Artist, the book. The result is inspiring, hip, original, practical, and entertaining. And filled with new truths about creativity: Nothing is original, so embrace influence, collect ideas, and remix and re-imagine to discover your own path. Follow your interests wherever they take you. Stay smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring—the creative you will need to make room to be wild and daring in your imagination.

I’m a writer who draws. I make art with words and books with pictures. Author of Steal Like An Artist and other bestsellers. Visit my website: http://austinkleon.com/

Austin Kleon

Steal Like an Artist

Ah, success - the elusive beast we all chase after, like a cat trying to catch its own tail. Some people spend their entire lives in pursuit of it, while others stumble upon it by accident like a drunkard finding a $20 bill on the sidewalk. Regardless of how you define it, one thing is for sure: success is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get, but you hope it's not the coconut-filled ones.

The Perils and Pitfalls of Pursuing Success: A Humorous Take

"Success is like being pregnant, everyone congratulates you but no one knows how many times you got screwed."

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

"The road to success is always under construction."

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."

"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."

"Success is 10% inspiration, 90% delusion."

"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time."

"If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission."

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."

"Success is like toilet paper, you can never have enough of it."

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Success - The Elusive Beast

"21st century art challenges: what makes us human?"

Narciss is an art installation that investigates what might happen if a machine were to exhibit human-like narcissism.The project was inspired by the concept of self-awareness, which has historically been considered unique to the human condition.

AI Explores Human-like Narcissism

The installation design was intentionally stripped back so that the object itself would speak with minimal interference.The team wanted to avoid decorating the machine and instead present it in its most basic, "naked" form.

Minimalistic Installation Design

As the AI observes itself in the mirror, it generates descriptions like "a shadow of a person" and "a bunch of electronics on a table." These descriptions are both accurate and eerie, reminding the team of how humans think about themselves.

Intriguing AI Self-Descriptions

To create a sense of grandiosity, the team filmed Narciss in a marble colosseum.This location was chosen to evoke a heavy, mockumentary feel, emphasizing the importance of the self in the context of the project.

Filmed in Marble Colosseum

The studio behind Narciss, Waltz Binaire, reinvests its profits in creative experiments with new technology.This approach allows the team to explore new possibilities in art and science while preserving the studio's identity.

Reinvesting Profits in Creative Tech

Before using a mirror in Narciss, the team experimented with AI-generated art and Rorschach TestsHowever, they did not feel these approaches made a significant poetic contribution, and ultimately decided on the mirror as the focal point of the installation.

Mirror as Focal Point

Narciss challenges the traditional view of creativity by demonstrating that AI can also generate art.This raises questions about what defines art and the role of AI in the creative process.

Questioning AI's Creative Capacity

Christian Mio Loclair, creative director at Waltz Binaire, believes that by asking profound, evolutionary questions, art can continue to grow and develop in new directions.

Art Growth Through Profound Questions

The AI, Narciss confronts the idea of self-worship and self-centeredness in art by presenting an AI caught in an eternal loop of self-reflection.

Challenging Self-Worship in Art

Narciss is designed to stimulate more holistic and humbling conversations about art and the human condition.By exploring the nature of self-awareness and creativity in AI, the project invites viewers to reevaluate their own self-perceptions and understanding of art.

Stimulating Holistic Discussions

As we progressed further into AI technology, we as human need to reevaluate our own self-awareness about AI and what are we going to do with it, what makes us unique as human?

Little Black Book, What does the AI that got lost in its own reflection tell us about the self and the future of creativity? LBB’s Laura Swinton talks to Waltz Binaire creative director Christian Mio Loclair at NEXT19

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Eternally Gazing: Narciss, the Self-Reflective AI

A method to learn hard concepts intuitively for a long time. Goal is to learn topic or subject that the concept is second nature to spit back the idea and know something in your brain for a long time decades. Best thing is to learn from a good source or truth. And build experience. intuitive understanding is accepting it as a fundamental truth.Treat it like a problem solving care about the topic so much your brain thinks about it unconsciously day to day. gain experience work with it daily. break into smaller pieces avoid memorization and memorize why it works , the bigger whole not tactics

General Learning Method. Pre lesson  

Learn the bigger picture first, why you’re learning the topic to get to what and draw that to where you need to get too.Then you can gradually look deeper into certain ideas to get more specific with detail. You should convince your brain to truly care like survival mode care and invent the solution yourself to create a concept then internalize the solution and make it stick in your brain by testing it out, take away parts and different parts, apply to different use cases, and even go back to think about the situation. post the teaching to others online, teach it like it was a cow learning

What The Process Of Learning A Hard Concept Looks Like 

Start with the big picture why it matters, and connect it to the end goal, you know you are doing this to end up here, you’ll forgive out the rest just need to get here, know the purpose it solves just need to attain this spot you. now we just fill in the blanks which is the solution usually different parts that connect to each other. Details 1, detail 2, detail 1.1,1.2, 2.1,2.2this is where caring, finding the problem to use our brains to actively find solutions which will extend over time where unconsciously come up with solutions if we flip back to understanding why we need this and care.

Map It Out 

but first understand simple explanation to the big picture ideas. As you learn more expand on details. Understand the detail in the big picture of things. understand by itself. reinforce the idea.understand why each detail works to the problem of the bigger picture and is a solution to get to the end goal. understand how it fits with other details. Sub-subjects. Because if you know details it should make sense back to the big picture and why it fits to the black box(end goal) understand the point for each detail.

Finding The Problem And Coming Up With a Solution 

Don’t learn all the details, figure out how the parts work together and how you can use the conclusion of one part to get to the next. It naturally breaks the the big picture into smaller approachable steps usually we learn laterally and read each concepts but learning an overview and why we need to learn to the end goal and really care is how we learn fast. So when learning difficult in-depth concepts we can focus on them and k ow why the connect with the main idea.focus on the problem, by caring which subconsciously fixes the problem and inventing the piece to the problem a solution.

Finding A Solution To The Problem The Right Way 

What is the piece about, what does it accomplish or what does it describe. What does it do, what does it solve. Pieces should fit together to tie into the end goal. A deep insightful understanding of the problem by trying to solve the problem yourself. Look at examples and reverse engineer. Actual care and give hints. Rewire brain to mentally capable of processing the problem and it’s solution for period of time convincing brain of survival threat. find solution by thinking actively how it solves the problem. Give people feel in the blank affirmations to sum up meeting or appointments calls

Looking At The Details In Detail Why caring and reiterating Work

People need to think for themselves or know why it works to care for the product.how the solution fits to the bigger picture ?what insights it offer for the rest of the concept ?what inspired that solution (can help understand the solution itself ).honestly try to break hard concepts.find solution reinforce it to stick by <ol><li> inventing concept </li><li>practice </li><li>explain it </li><li>explore ideas related to the concepts </li></ol>

Pt2 Figure Out Why It Works And Problem Solving Helps

Invent a concept you learn intuitively for yourself. When teaching you can make presentations visually or create frame works or guiding principles it’s easier for triangle of principles.

Invent Concept 

Apply the concept to tackle other problems.make it second nature to use this concept to problems. Why it fits for this problem and not others why it doesn’t fit. That way the context of the problems make more sense.goal: is to reinforce until you understand Intuitively.

Practice 

What you can’t explain teaches you what you need to reinforce and better understand.

Explain In Your Own Words 

Learn by thinking of a last problem and finding the solution from your brain that solved it. Ask yourself this. Engage with the concept because often you slowly forget. change one part of the problem and see if it still works and why it works or doesn’t see if some other solutions applies relate past knowledge to the concept question any intuitive assumption you’re makingask why it’s this way break the concept look at the concept from a different angle talk to other abou the experiences and insights

Explore 

Big picture or topic is why your learning what your striving for which is the black box learning the subjects they should fit together with othe r subjects and for to answer the black box Intuitively remember by burning it in your brain care, create, understand why it works okay with concept and reinforce the solutions you made to the problems you found and share in a presentation or content online.

In Summary 

How to learn things that you don’t know where to start 

A general learning method for learning and understanding hard concepts intuitively/deeply/obviously, and for long periods - up to years at a time. I’ve put in some easter eggs this time - enjoy finding them. Sources (probably not exhaustive): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glZLHLLalv0 https://betterexplained.com/articles/developing-your-intuition-for-math/ https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/23806/understanding-the-intuition-behind-math https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/ Music (not in order, I'm still lazy) Local Forecast - Slower by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3988-local-forecast---slower License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Dreams by Bensound https://www.bensound.com Support by RFM - NCM: https://bit.ly/2xGHypM Sthlm Sunset by Ehrling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoEhoGt4mIw (not exactly sure how to credit, the link is dead) Sunset On Terra by HYBRID V (Creative Commons License) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Support by RFM - NCM: https://bit.ly/2xGHypM Paradise by Ikson ( https://youtube.com/ikson ) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhtj7_KaplM This Is For You (Prod. by Lukrembo) Link : https://youtu.be/GC0AhsnDMfc Timestamps 00:00 Intro (and about me) 00:31 What does “intuitively” mean? 01:41 Core principles 02:58 Abstraction barrier 05:10 How to understand a single piece? 05:41 Single piece - caring 06:51 Single piece - unleashing your brain 09:26 Single piece - reading the solution 10:01 Single piece - no need to solve it 10:33 How to reinforce? 11:16 Reinforcing - invent 11:27 Reinforcing - practice 12:05 Reinforcing - explain 12:56 Reinforcing - explore 13:58 Reinforcing - over time 15:09 Tying it all together 15:31 An ecosystem of learning 16:42 IQ 18:14 Final remarks

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A general learning method for learning and understanding hard concepts intuitively/deeply/obviously, and for long periods - up to years at a time.

I’ve put in some easter eggs this time - enjoy finding them.

Sources (probably not exhaustive):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glZLHLLalv0
https://betterexplained.com/articles/developing-your-intuition-for-math/
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/23806/understanding-the-intuition-behind-math
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/

Music (not in order, I'm still lazy)

Local Forecast - Slower by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3988-local-forecast---slower 
License: [yt dislikes this link, removed]

Dreams by Bensound
https://www.bensound.com
Support by RFM - NCM: https://bit.ly/2xGHypM

Sthlm Sunset by Ehrling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoEhoGt4mIw
(not exactly sure how to credit, the link is dead)

Sunset On Terra by HYBRID V (Creative Commons License)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Support by RFM - NCM: https://bit.ly/2xGHypM

Paradise by Ikson ( https://youtube.com/ikson )
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhtj7_KaplM

This Is For You (Prod. by Lukrembo)
Link : https://youtu.be/GC0AhsnDMfc

Timestamps
00:00 Intro (and about me)
00:31 What does “intuitively” mean?
01:41 Core principles
02:58 Abstraction barrier
05:10 How to understand a single piece?
05:41 Single piece - caring
06:51 Single piece - unleashing your brain
09:26 Single piece - reading the solution
10:01 Single piece - no need to solve it
10:33 How to reinforce?
11:16 Reinforcing - invent
11:27 Reinforcing - practice
12:05 Reinforcing - explain
12:56 Reinforcing - explore
13:58 Reinforcing - over time
15:09 Tying it all together
15:31 An ecosystem of learning
16:42 IQ
18:14 Final remarks

General videos about learning and maximizing your brain's power (for now)

Some stats (competitive programming stuff):
Codeforces (max. rating): 2657 - international grandmaster
Codechef (max. rating): 2555 - 7 stars
ICPC progress: world finalist '23, ranked 3rd in NAC (all of US + Canada)
IOI progress: USACO camp
Best leetcode contest rank: 4th (weekly 323)
Best kickstart rank: 10th (twice)


Colin Galen

Focusing Your Unconscious Mind: Learn Hard Concepts Intuitively (And Forever)

Something the author heard recently and he have tried to adopt whenever possible:“Whoever has the most fun, wins.”

“Water never complains, but always pushes back. Always.Drop a boulder in front of a stream and the water will simply flow around it, taking whatever opening the landscape will give or—when nothing is offered—patiently building up its resources until it rises to a height where a new gap is found.Flow like water. Never complain, but always push back.”

“Time assets vs. Time debts.Time assets are choices that save you time in the future. Think: saying no to a meeting, automating a task, working on something that persists and compounds.Time debts are choices that must be repaid and cost you time in the future. Think: saying yes to a meeting, doing sloppy work that will need to be revised, etc.Time assets are an investment. Time debts are an expense.”

“We learn nothing by being right.”

“Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. It is a bridge built brick by brick, every day, with sweat and humility and slips. It is hard work, and slow work, but it can be thrilling to watch it take shape.”

Apply the Pareto Principle to your relationships. Who are the few people that deliver the majority of happiness in your life? Can you schedule time with one of them today?

1 QUESTION FOR YOU

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3-2-1: Time assets vs. Time debts, slow change, and the importance of failure

Some obvious truths that are rarely acknowledged

Obvious Truths

Sometimes a simple “Hi” can be the beginning of next 3 years of trauma, so reply carefully

Deleting your social media is one of the easiest ways to make people forget you exist.

A good person doesn’t always equal good relationship.

Unless your name is Google, then you don’t need to know everything

If it drains you, it’s not for you

Sometimes no reaction is the best option

Make someone smile every day, but never forget that you are someone too:)

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Psychological Counseling 

WHAT DETERMINE A PERSON'S CHARACTER AREN'T THE MISTAKES WE MAKE.IT IS HOW WE TAKE THOSE MISTAKES AND TURN THEM INTO LESSONS RATHER THAN EXCUSES.

In this “brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn’t let go, long after you’ve finished it” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Your Perfects, a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance can’t stop thinking about her first love. Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan—her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened. An honest, evocative, and tender novel, It Ends with Us is “a glorious and touching read, a forever keeper. The kind of book that gets handed down” (USA TODAY).

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Personal Development

International and #1 New York Times bestselling author of romance, YA, thriller, women's fiction and paranormal romance. I don't like to be confined to one genre. If you put me in a box, I'll claw my way out. My social media username is @colleenhoover pretty much everywhere except my email, which is colleenhooverbooks@gmail.comFounder of www.thebookwormbox.com charity and Book Bonanza.

Colleen Hoover

It Ends with Us

<ul><li>Personal development is learning.</li><li>Life is here to teach you.</li><li>Take triggers as opportunity. Every moment in your life, minor/major is an opportunity to learn and grow.</li><li>See your life as a classroom, you're in class all day long, learning.</li><li>Take a step back. Ask "What's happening?" then "Why?" > breathe > comfort yourself > let it go, work on it.</li><li>Ask "What is this trying to teach me?" It might even be rooted to your childhood issues. Example: why do i feel bad when my partner doesn't update/call me? Why am i so triggered? You might have a fear of abandonment.</li><li>Thank the universe for every lesson</li></ul>

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The Mindset Mentor - Why Self-Help Books Aren’t Enough

Goals will cost a piece of your peace and self until attained

Adversity is the highest pedestal of growth a man can arrive at

Sticking to ordinary will grant you extraordinary results

Happiness is peace and calm not pleasure and intensity

I've been growing from a heartbreak and now when I have all the time in the world I get to reflect and learn from books and brilliant achievers,my own life and the ways I've been growing and making my little achievements on the way

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Clarity

I’ve always had a nonsensical belief in myself and the universe. Basically what happens to me is, there’s an automatic reset that my brain goes into, where I say, “I might not be able to make it through the front door, like everybody else. But I’ll make it through the basement window. I’ll make it through the back door. I’ll find a way to parachute in on the roof and climb down into a window.”I have faith. And I think faith is better than hope, you know? Hope walks into fire, and faith leaps over it.

“I have faith. And I think faith is better than hope, you know? Hope walks into fire, and faith leaps over it.”

The comedian-artist (with co-author Dana Vachon) has written a semi-serious, semi-autobiographical novel, &quot;Memoirs and Misinformation&quot;

Jim Carrey’s “nonsensical belief” in himself and the universe

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