“ They assigned 428 students to fill out a standard “morningness-eveningness questionnaire, ”
Morning People May Be More Creative in the Afternoon - Miller-McCune
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“ For me the ultimate luxury is to be alone, to have time for myself, not look at my watch, and do whatever I want, whenever I want. ”
Karl Lagerfeld (via claytoncubitt)
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Dan Harmon and his storytelling circles
The creator of the TV show Community has come up with a circle diagram to “codify the storytelling process—to find the hidden structure powering the movies and TV shows, even songs, he’d been absorbing since he was a kid.”
Harmon calls his circles embryos—they contain all the elements needed for a satisfying story—and he uses them to map out nearly every turn on Community, from throwaway gags to entire seasons. If a plot doesn’t follow these steps, the embryo is invalid, and he starts over. To this day, Harmon still studies each film and TV show he watches, searching for his algorithm underneath, checking to see if the theory is airtight. “I can’t not see that circle,” he says. “It’s tattooed on my brain.”
Here he breaks it down for you:
Start thinking of as many of your favorite movies as you can, and see if they apply to this pattern. Now think of your favorite party anecdotes, your most vivid dreams, fairy tales, and listen to a popular song (the music, not necessarily the lyrics). Get used to the idea that stories follow that pattern of descent and return, diving and emerging. Demystify it. See it everywhere. Realize that it’s hardwired into your nervous system, and trust that in a vacuum, raised by wolves, your stories would follow this pattern.
(thx, @jamesfflynn!)
Cascade, a glass sculpture designed by Sergio Redegalli for the Botanic Gardens in Adelaide.
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“ I tend to see psychopaths as someone suffering from a disorder, so I wouldn’t use the word evil to describe them. (…) My hope is that the neuroscience helps the legal system to understand that these individuals have a disorder and this disorder is treatable ”
Dr. Kent Kiehl - Neuroscientist, University of New Mexico in Psychopaths: Born evil or with a diseased brain? (via psydoctor8)
