The Danny Miranda Podcast

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• “When we are connected to each other 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year, it becomes more difficult to have different ideas” Kevin Kelly
  • Vanishing cultures can be an inspiration to help us think differently
• Kevin is a huge believer in taking time off, playing, and being inefficient
  • Those are the times we can be most creative
  • Innovation and creativity are fundamentally inefficient
    • They contain so much failure and dead-ends
• Doing a thing only for the pure joy of it is one of the paths to new ideas
• Your unconscious is one of the most powerful tools you have
  • It whispers to you and you want to be able to listen to it
  • You have to do something to actively connect to it, otherwise, you won’t be able to
  • For some people, it’s in the shower, others while walking, drawing, or journaling
• The best way to teach something to children is through example, not through what you say

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Kevin Kelly is a writer, photographer, conservationist, and student of Asian and digital culture. He is the founding executive editor of Wired Magazine and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review. When he was about 20 years old he dropped out of college to go to Asia. He arrived in Taiwan in 1972 and was blown away. He is known for his concept of 1,000 true fans, and his wisdom continually gets proven correct.