Category: interdisciplinaryinnovation
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5 Easy Ways To Turn Play Into Your Dream Career
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”— Marcel Proust, French novelist, literary critic, and essayist Back when I played just to play… When I was a little girl, there was a random assortment of hobbies I pursued when I played (and how foreign the concept of…
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The 4 Design Secrets From Evolutionary Biology That Unlock Results
“Simplicity carried to an extreme becomes elegance.” -Jon Franklin, American author and Pulitzer Prize winner Design is small tweaks over a long time. For several months, I have been staring at my laptop screen, knowing I had to talk about evolutionary biology and design, but not knowing exactly what shape to make the words and…
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A Love Letter To Dirt & What To Do About The World Disappearing From Beneath Our Feet
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”…
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What To Do When You Don’t Belong Anywhere
“I am not a little bit of many things; but I am the sufficient representation of many things. I am not an incompletion of all these races; but I am a masterpiece of the prolific. I am an entirety, I am not a lack of anything; rather I am a whole of many things. God…
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How To Stop Asking For Permission To Be An Artist
“Doubt never announces itself with loud footsteps or broken doors; it slips quietly into the room, carrying the dust of old memories, unfinished healing, and fears you believed you’d already outgrown. It knows precisely where you’re tender, exactly where to press, and how to make you question the very ground you stand on.” – Cyndi…
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75 Weird But Cool Interdisciplinary Careers No One Told You Existed
“Go as far as you can see, when you get there you’ll be able to see further.” -Thomas Carlyle Here Are Your Options. When you’re an interdisciplinary misfit, there are a few piercing milestones you inevitably experience as you fumble through the standard list of options. There’s the class selection when you’re in high school…
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3 Secrets A Mountain Mushroom Taught Me About Creative Focus, Systems Thinking & Inner Peace
“Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being.” – Eckhart Tolle Insights From Mt. Takao Of all the weird natural systems on the planet, I thought I was over mushrooms. I really did. Turns out though, we’re back in love.…
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Use This Secret Tool To Build A Crazy Imagination
“What is now proved was once only imagined.” – William Blake Training myself to think bigger. After reading more about neuroscience this year, and developing greater intention with how I visualize my success, I discovered something crazy: I was used to thinking small. This thought has driven me toward a long, winding road of daydreams,…
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5 Problems With Sustainable Materials That Will Make You Rich
“We can’t just consume our way to a more sustainable world.” – Jennifer Nini Please steal these ideas. After spending a year diving deeper into the world of materials science and nanotech, one thing has become clear: sustainable materials are the future, and the future might make you rich. However, before we get ahead of…
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How I Learned To Be Unstoppably Cool
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” -Carl Jung What Is Cool? When I think of “cool”, I think of Codie Sanchez. I’ve been following her journey for about five years, and the life and business(es) she has built never fail to inspire me. After working on Wall Street for…