Sara Ness

Instigator of connection and awkward turtle of social situations. I study/teach on loneliness, belonging, conflict, and everything in between.

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@amandapalmer Feeling happy working on a new creative project. I just joined Twitter after reading this little book called The Art of Asking ;) I got the courage today, as a result, to email my Kickstarter backers from a funded project that never got finished, 9 years ago, and apologize.

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Quote of the day:

“We cannot live for ourselves alone
Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads
And along these sympathetic fibers
Our actions run as causes and return to us as results.”
- Herman Melville

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@MrSimmoSimpson @NathanpmYoung I’m not good enough at Twitter to find what the original thread here was, but: yes, I did that, and the thesis is downloadable at the bottom of this page: https://t.co/lxHGWcPxMP

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Quote of the day:
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterwards you can remove all traces of reality.” - Pablo Picasso

Photo by Dall-E

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@JLBornstein That is a hell of a good love language.

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Going into Day 2 of a sprint creating and integrating psychometric feedback for the Relating Languages assessment. Definite #xkcd vibes:

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@MaxCaspar_ @jnicolaisen Love this. It sounds like asking what the projects we’re being accountable to are in service of, and if they’re truly leading towards the fulfilling of that vision and values in the world.

It does feel easier to create when I think of it through that lens!

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Doing an accountability day with @jnicolaisen today to get some creative work done. I’m curious for all the entrepreneurs out there: how the hell do YOU stay accountable to making new things, amongst the constant trash fire of running a business? 🤔

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Working on the Relating Languages assessment today, and thinking of my favorite quotes about data visualization:

“Whenever I am infuriated, I revenge myself with a new diagram” - Florence Nightingale

“Having a good presentation is the equivalent of a British accent” - J. Sager

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@MrSimmoSimpson @SpencrGreenberg Aw! Simmo, you’re the best ❤️❤️❤️

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@JoeMunoz18 Why thank you, Joe! I look forward to the expansion of my experience ^.^ (and since you’re on here, it can’t be TOO bad.)

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I have had a long run of boycotting any Apps the Kids These Days Are Using. Turns out Twitter is now purview of Kids of My Day. Hi friends!

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(Citation: “The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs”, 2014 - available on the Frontiers in Human Neuroscience website.)

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Thinking about inertia, e.g. why don’t we leave toxic situations? Why don’t we develop habits we know are good for us?

A neuroscience article nobody seems to know about argues that our brains evolved to minimize entropy and disorder (living in a state of “sub-criticality”)…

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TL;DR: our brains actually evolved to decrease our ability to make novel connections and break out of established habits. There are neurological reasons why we hate uncertainty. And there are certain states that could help shake us into a state of higher criticality.

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Go beyond traditional brainstorming and decision-making processes to elevate your team's creative problem-solving skills, with Sara Ness.