Alix
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Creativity fuels life. Writer at Breaking Through Creative Blocks, a newsletter about getting unstuck and doing work that makes us feel alive.
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
from Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
- nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know…nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. perhaps there is no solid obstacle except our own need to protect ourselves from being touched. maybe the only enemy is that we don’t like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as pr... See more
from When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
Deep is so un-American now, even radical. We live too often like water skeeters on the surface of the pond, dropping down for a quick bite of insect or e-mail. Deep is the realm of soul.
from Hallelujah Anyway by Anne Lamott
- Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:
- We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.
- We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed flavor-of
from The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College by Ted Gioia
- The most effective way I've found to use Claude to get better at writing:
Paste in a bunch of chapters or articles.
It can accept ~350 pages of input, so go crazy.
Ask it which chapter or article is the best and to explain why it's the best.
Keep asking follow up questions and build a list of all the reasons it's strong. Feel free to add your own.
... See morefrom Tweet by Nat Eliason
AI prompts for writers
- Nothing, not one thing, hurts us more — or causes us to hurt others more — than our certainties. The stories we tell ourselves about the world and the foregone conclusions with which we cork the fount of possibility are the supreme downfall of our consciousness. They are also the inevitable cost of survival, of navigating a vast and complex reality... See more
from The Things Themselves, Alive With Metaphor by Jeannine Ouellette
- When you slow down and really break a topic down, you start to realize there isn't enough clarity in saying, "I want to write about X." And the reason so many writers sit down to write, only to give up 5 minutes later, is because this is the first BIG realization they have to confront. They thought they knew what they wanted to write about, only to... See more
from How to Start Writing Online: The Ship 30 for 30 Ultimate Guide by ship30for30.com