It’s midnight here in Spain, and I’m headed to Chicago in 6 hours to kick off the wedding week!
Today I’m spicing up your inbox with 10 quick thoughts on intellect, creativity, and originality.
I’m planning to turn these 10 points into a cohesive piece centered around the impact of regurgitated content all over the internet (but it needs to marinate a bit more).
For now, if one of these 10 points jumps out at you, I’d love to know.
All you have to do is leave a comment.
10 Thoughts on Intellect, Creativity, and Originality
1. There’s no shortage of regurgitated content across the internet.Instagram is full of quote squares saying the same things in different fonts.
2. Regurgitating intellectual information is much easier than taking the time to create something original.
3. Critical thought takes energy, but it’s one of the most worthwhile things we can do to free ourselves from societal conditioning.
4. We’re obsessed with intellect, but knowledge is not the same as knowing.
5. To influence someone, help them transcend intellect, and get to embodied understanding.
6. Consuming information until you’re stuffed to the brim, unable to sort your ideas from someone else’s, isn’t good for anyone. Your expression of creativity is needed in the world.
7. In a society where we place so much value on intellect, it’s easy to get addicted to intellectualizing everything.
8. We have to be careful to transcend our intellectual knowledge and integrate the information so that it becomes a knowing and fuel for creation or behavior change.
9. When we’re willing to go beyond the intellect and enter the realm of embodied understanding, insight, inspiration, imagination, and innovation start to play together. It’s the difference between intellectually knowing it’s good to set boundaries and actually feeling like setting one will support you in getting more of what you want.
10. Intellectual knowledge is easy to copy and regurgitate, but insights and stories are not.
Did one of these insights jump out at you? Leave a reply to continue the conversation.
xx,
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