Henrik Karlsson

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Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.

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creativity 3

If art is what happens when a work interacts with a mind, the experiences artists can create are limited by the quality of their audiences.
Commercial pop, hip-hop and rock are three villages in the same small valley of the space of possible music.

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innovation 3

Feeling highly generative during a phase of creative experimentation tends to coincide with producing nothing of finished, production-grade quality.
Starting creative work from a small, specific detail produces more original results than starting from a big overarching idea.

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behavioural science 2

The feedback loops a person allows to operate on them shape who they become to an unsettling degree.
People tend to assume their habitual practices achieve what they intend, even without evidence that they do.

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Psychotherapy 2

Deepening your understanding of a situation helps you maintain a sense of control over it.
Practices marketed as transformative, such as therapy, meditation, and psychedelics, often produce little real progress despite years of use.

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