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Your Passion Needs No End

What’s the mission? What’s your end-goal? When will you see success in what you do? What’s your plan for the future of so and so? These are the typical questions that we ask each other in order to find out the “end” of whatever it is that we are doing in our lives. Our projects, [...]

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David Askaripour: Never Settle on “The Authority” (part 2)

The follow-up of the “Never Settle on ‘The Authority’” (part 1) talk, going into certain individuals in history who simply weren’t happy settling for the answers they were receiving — they just weren’t having it. So they went out to answer their own questions.

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David Askaripour: Never Settle for What “The Authority” Says (part 1)

Never settle for something to be true, right, and correct simply because an “Authority” figure has deemed it so. Always venture within and ask yourself as well. You know more than you think.

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Three Creative Relationships: Monarchical, Concentric, Organism-based

There are various relationships that define how your projects, companies, creative pursuits can grow and influence others. Among them, Monarchical, Concentric, and Organic relationships are three fundamental relationships that most of us would fall under and categorize our creative pursuits as. No one relationship is better than the other and in many ways, they are [...]

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Questioning Your Deepest Convictions: The Kantian Revolution

Creativity is often spoken of as if it were some kind of supernatural force—something as mysterious as fate or karma or public opinion. Here, creativity blesses a bitter, alcoholic painter. There, it’s a lazy, aristocratic mathematician with bad breath. Over there, it’s a hard-working, nose-to-the-grindstone banker who writes poetry in her spare time. It seems [...]

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