Barbell strategy means to do two absolute different things to extremes rather than two middling things.
It comes from investing where you invest half in high risk/reward stocks, and half in risk free assets rather than just average stocks.
Some real life, non-financial examples:
Put a note pad next to your bed. Write down everything going through your mind. Keep writing while you are thinking until everything is covered. Now no more reason to think about things and you go to sleep. You can review the stuff when you wake up.
Original video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g
(There are also some other videos of him talking about creativity)
Creativity is derived from play.
We exist in one of two states: Open and Closed
Closed is for when creativity is decided on and should be the follow up to being open. ...