Simultaneously striving for intellectual humility & creative audacity is hard, but I've noticed that people who are genuinely curious about *everything* don't seem to have to swim upstream to get there.https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/965443482390224896 …
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Ego/self stuff can help in both phases, especially the second. I'm not sure it's entirely possible to do without, especially for very ambitious work. Still, I bet a strong curiosity and "this is play" lens lessens the tension a lot!
I'd push back on that a bit... not that having a self-narrative is bad, but I think there are a lot of traps there. For example, it's hard to be really creative if you subtly view every idea you have as somehow *reflective of you*, A Bright and Responsible Adult.
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Oh, I def agree it's replete with traps. But also maybe not optional to navigate - when I think of work I admire, it mostly (always?) seems to be done by people with strong self-regard. Still: independently nurturing one's own curiosity also seems like a good idea!
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It was an epiphany at 19 or so to realize that ambition was not something to hide or be ashamed of. Which, somehow, was an idea I'd internalized growing up.
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