: "The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything ... they just make the best of everything they have"

: renewable is not equal to infinite.

: the Australian accent is constantly changing.

: "to navigate the fine line between edgy and appalling, authentic and offensive."

Late night Billboard

Living on purpose?

Matt with Matt - NFSA

Larger than life!

A speech given before my time.

Click here for A speech before my time..mp3

Young Minds

Matt Cornell speaking at the Young Minds conference

: to start every day as a producer, not a consumer.

: don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

: who wants to be informed when they can be affirmed.

: a symphonic cacophony of distraction

: Genres are the platforms and paradigms of the creative world. - Steven Johnson

: Genres supply a set of implicit rules that have enough coherence that traditionalists can safely play inside them, and more adventurous artists can confound our expectations by playing with them. - where good ideas come from.

Gifted company

3 layer pav!

Taronga Night

Taronga Night - MattCornell.com

: are you listening or guessing?

: Their results suggest "that whatever it is that an IQ test measures, it is not the ability to engage in complex forms of multivariate reasoning."

: sometimes free is more expensive.

: from information to integration.

: "The imitation of complex skills is what we call culture" - Lecture by Alex Deutinger and Marta Navaridas at the Congress ¨Re-staging Alterity¨

: Wow!!! just scored MattCornell.com thanks to my sister TiffanyCornell.com !!!!

: luck: when preparation meets opportunity.

"It's one of those concept we understand intuitively but then we dwell on it and realize how complicated it is."

: The remarkable potential of ordinary adults and their amazing capacity for change with practice - Anders Ericsson

: if one is not dancing one is not dance-training; they are instead cross-training.

: "are working in the way we are working because we want to, or because we are stuck in a form we have got used to or efficient in"

: ease and simplicity are very different things.

Snoopy

: "the man who claimed to have thirty years experience might simply be making the same mistake every year for thirty years." - Gerard I. Nierenberg

: "Such findings do not prove that talent doesn't exist. But they suggest an intriguing possibility: that if it does, it may be irrelevant." - Geoff Colvin

: "and he presented his new theory with a convert's zeal."

: "the scarce resource is no longer money. It's human ability."

: "And in sharing his story, he alights on the real meaning of handmade—a movement whose riches are measured in people, not cash." - http://thisismadebyhand.com/

: doing ones research is very different than testing for yourself.