And today, we're really, really thankful to Google for having us be able to speak today, and for having Andre's work on display as a 50 year retrospective on display for a few months over the holidays, before the holidays.And we're here to talk about creativity.
So running your life based on predictions about what's going to make you happy or unhappy turns out to be a pretty flawed compass. Retrospective accounts of your life-- you're dying, you're on your death bed, someone says were you happy?Is that what it's all about?
perfect in 2002 we do a retrospective on the fact 1846recipes this is a creative pressure that is not crazy we decided to stop for a year
You're bored out of your mind. Retrospectively , when you look back over your trip, that's merely a blip in your conscious experiences.So because you know the Atlanta bathroom is only so interesting and it didn't store too much information about that wonderful experience in your memory banks.
the way it is that was never anybody's reason until some clever person analyzed the thing and figured out retrospectively what it was good for trees do things for reasons the trees don't know them they aren'treasons that the trees have and consider but they do lots of things for reasons fungi do things for reasons
have gone through he would have had to remove far more than his shoes uh at the retrospectively but economists of course I'm sure disagree um
Some frames of reference that I found helpful in discussing this is there's going to be a dimension where we're asking you to take a look backwards, this retrospective approach. There's the introspective side of it, like thinking inwards, who are you? And then the forward-thinking part of it, the speculative vision of who you are in the future.
And the application, the questions that we're asking are helping us kind of center on kind of three broad buckets, and this is the way I think about it. So retrospective , looking at the past, insights, actions, behaviors. What are some of the things that have led you up to today?
Yes. Oh, and I would also personally like to thank Google for the opportunity of presenting my 50 year retrospective show, and then also, obviously, this Google talk and would like to think Benjamin and who's been-- who you've already met, but coordinated all of this. So I'd like to thank him.
There's-- we used to think that there was going to be five to 10 genes that we would recognize-- we would be able to find that accounted for autism. both retrospective research, where parents talk to us about what their children were like when they were growing up.
what I call the Black Swan Theory rare EVS of extreme impact and only retrospective predictability the financial crisis was a Black Swan in fact Nasim was a hedge fund Trader he had essentially
those that are not have smaller ones. I mean it wouldn't be so much the willpower of muscle. It would be some indication retrospectively of how hard you have worked. Look, the fact is you can see changes in brain size with lots of things. I'll give you an example. If you are a pianist, if you play piano,
elapsed, even though it might have been a long period of time. But retrospectively , as you look back, that's not so much a timing task but a memory task. You're thinking back of the number of items, or you're influenced by the number of items in memory.
The application is asking you to think about this in three kind of non-mutually exclusive buckets, because oftentimes they do and will inform each other. So this retrospective , looking back, at your past experiences, introspective, understanding who you are, and then how that informs the things that you want to do in the future.
What matters most to you and why? And then retrospective , tell me about a time when. These three big buckets kind of cover the span of what a lot of the questions and types of things that you're gonna be reflecting on in the application.
And then the next day, the guy is a criminal. So it's very retrospective , whereas finance is very forward-looking.
Like I said, this is a big research program. Some promising ideas include retrospective models, phenomenal concepts, introspective opacity, the sense of acquaintance.
And we weren't looking at this prospectively. This was all retrospective data. But it tells us that there's all this mass amount of health care data that's being collected that we're not using in any real appropriate way to inform our decisions.
without the retrospective gaze.
Does that mean you didn't really-- doesn't count? The problem with retrospective accounts is, I could give you your favorite flavored cookie and you would retrospectively say you were happier. I can give you a bitter pill and retrospectively you say, not so happy.
and have retrospectives at MoMA instead I found myself standing in front of a class of apathetic tweens trying to
We've always done retrospectives .
On view was an Yves Klein retrospective , highlighted by monochromes and blue impressions of the female body pulled across canvas.
frequent than we think because we tend to uh advertise all of our successes with retrospective accounts of the reasoning that led up to them and it may in some sense be accurate we're actually reverse
So it was really a retrospective justification for the killings based on the economic performance at the last 25 years.
So it is inherently a retrospective time.
It was going to be a retrospective thing as we moved into this new world.
we do where we choose and decide and we act for reasons sometimes we do that without even appreciating that we're doing that retrospectively we may figure out oh there was a good reason for that and of course sometimes we confabulate sometimes on purpose how many of you
and where your mind is, even, in terms of the imagery that you choose, or how you go about just creating works. And so this is the first piece in the 50 year retrospective , 1969. Well, and these pieces were like the first things I did in the summer of '69 in LA.
Of course. Now in retrospective , what do you think made you find your strength
So because you know the Atlanta bathroom is only so interesting and it didn't store too much information about that wonderful experience in your memory banks. So we have this paradox between prospective timing and retrospective timing, which in part influences our ability to tell time. Now everybody has also known about cases under extreme danger or extreme stress
It was also in conjunction with the international exhibition retrospective of Jean Paul Gaultier.
And only later does government policy at best retrospectively rationalize what came out of the creative, destructive process
So we're going to have certainly some coverage and some retrospectives .
So then they performed the event and realized retrospectively , you know, the impact that we were trying to have and the reasons that we were programming
The problem with retrospective accounts is, I could give you your favorite flavored cookie and you would retrospectively say you were happier. I can give you a bitter pill and retrospectively you say, not so happy. So we can manipulate your moods about the past just like we can manipulate your moods in the present.
that said they were "in defense of smoking moms." And there was a retrospective paper in 2014 that looked back
And that's what I would like for you to share in retrospective because one year after Martha opened her current restaurant, which
So we study data and we go back and look at the retrospective data-- because right now, we have more than 10,
And then I'd like to give you a little bit of a retrospective , because as I said, I stopped working In 2001,
It makes sense, but only retrospectively .
I really think we all have a kind of finite set of stories that retrospectively determine who we think we are and how we
track events in real time, but it retrospectively edits them so the way in which you perceive the tap on the elbow
It was that huge, how do we capture this retrospective idea of America?
We talked a lot about that yesterday. Today we're going to play in this space, the retrospective , and to some degree introspective, because again, these three categories are not mutually exclusive. But we'll really play in the kind of looking backwards.
on what are, at this point, retrospective evaluations of the electric vehicle tax credits that the Biden administration had put forward.
So, both happiness and and satisfaction are kind of about like retrospective activity. Like you look back on what
been a lot of effort to demonstrate, at least in a retrospective sense, that impact in society.
Taking it one step further, actually last November in 2017 to coincide with her major retrospective at the Whitney Museum, they one-upped it and they cleverly
And then we'd sit in a room, we'd do a retrospective or a critique or a fact finding, whatever you want to call it.