The theme of availability heuristics has been coming up over and over again over the past few weeks for me. An availability heuristic relies on what we know to make a judgement. We tend to rely on what we know, and what’s easily and readily available.
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āDonāt shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.ā – David Alan Harvey
I was having a hard time the other night, so I went outside and looked at the night sky. I looked up and asked for a falling star, just one, to let me know that somebody was there. All I wanted was one simple falling star. In a night, a month, a year, a lifetime full of falling stars, just one at that moment to let me know that I wasn’t just talking to the air, that I wasn’t just just talking to the sky.
I didn’t see one.
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We all have lists; lists of what needs to be done, lists of what we’d like to do, lists of what others would like us to do, grocery lists, track lists, wish lists, various checklists, you name it. We use lists all the time.
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Late one evening after my wife and I had gone out for dinner, I noticed that a storm was moving towards the Superstition Mountains. I asked my wife if we could go out and shoot the lightning, and she agreed. We got out there as soon as the storm was headed into the mountains. Mother Nature was nice enough to cooperate that night, and so we were treated with some fantastic views!
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“Making Art is the Same as Saying a Prayer.” – Rainn Wilson
Failure is a catalyst for creativity – as long as you don’t let it defeat you.
Are we so afraid of failure, that we don’t even try? Or do we play it so safe, that we don’t give failure the opportunity to let us grow? Failure is painful. I’ve failed, I know.
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My oldest son and I were able to catch these during a chase early this monsoon season in Northern Arizona. We chased this storm across the state, and timed it almost perfectly. The storm blew right over us, and as it blew over, it dropped some spectacular lightning behind it!
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The Dead Sea, which we know isn’t really a sea, is completely devoid of any life. The water isĀ full of salt. It’s seven times more salty than the ocean, so the lake is completely dead. It can’t support life. The Sea of Galilee on the other hand, which isn’t really a sea either, is just north of the Dead Sea. It’s a thriving lake. There is an entire fishing industry based on the fish that come from the Sea of Galilee. It has a thriving and beautiful ecosystem.
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This is a photo of one of the first automobiles in California. The design stands out to me – it looks like it’s missing a horse. The thing looks like a wagon. I’d imagine it looks that way because that’s what we knew then. It makes sense that it would look like something that’s familiar.
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