Neri Oxman
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard Sep 2023
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MIT was another experience like that where people pointed at me as, you know, the designer for whom the academic currency is not necessarily the citation index.
And of course, in order to get tenure at MIT, you have to look at the citation index.
But for me, it was not that.
It was manifesting our work in shows and writing papers and writing patents and creating a celebration around the work.
And I never saw a distinction between those ways of being.
I also think that another kind of
way of being or a modality of being that I found helpful is Viktor Frankl wrote this incredible book, Man's Search for Meaning After the Holocaust.
And he writes different people pursue life for different reasons.
According to Freud, the goal of life is to find pleasure.
And according to Adler, it's, you know, to find power.
And for Viktor Frankl, it was about finding meaning.
And when you let go of the titles and the disciplines and the boundaries and the expectations and the perception, you are elevated to this really special place.
Yes, spiritual, but definitely very, very creative plane where you can sort of start anew.
Look at the world through the lens of a bacterium or a robot or look at ecology through the lens of chemistry and look at chemistry through the lens of robotics and look at robotics through the lens of science.
microbial ecologies and so on and so forth.
And I feel that kind of rebooting, not every 10 years, but every minute, every breath is very, very important for a creative life and for just maintaining this fresh mind to reboot, to begin again with every breath, begin again.
And that can be confusing for some, right?
For my team members and
I like to change my mind.
It's who I am.
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