Maria Popova’s ‘The Marginalian’ has to be the best site on the web for inspiration and information on the topics of science and arts. In this post of her’s The Third Self: [[Mary Oliver]] on [time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life](https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/12/mary-oliver-upstream-creativity-power-time/) _she brilliantly brings together many sources to write and reflect on the paradoxes of concentration and [[Creativity]]. Our minds are inherently creative, thoughts seem to secrete [[spontaneously]] - Someone who is [[Madness|mad]] lives in the subconscious where [[Chaos]] and distraction reign. In some ways they have gone beyond the conscious realm, but likewise a person who lives too much within the conscientious also becomes mired in the mechanical, maniacal mayhem_ **_Echoing Keats’s notion of_** [**_“negative capability,”_**](https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/11/01/john-keats-on-negative-capability/) **_Dani Shapiro’s insistence that the artist’s task is_** [**_“to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it,”_**](https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/11/11/dani-shapiro-still-writing-2/) **_and Georgia O’Keeffe’s counsel that as an artist you ought to be_** [**_“keeping the unknown always beyond you,”_**](https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/12/08/georgia-okeeffe-sherwood-anderson-letters/) **_Oliver considers the central commitment of the creative life — that of making uncertainty and the unknown the raw material of [[Art]]:_** [[Blogs]] `Concepts:` `Knowledge Base:`