Creativity
“…academia respected discipline, rewarded effort, but even more, it adored genius that didn’t have to try.”
- R.F. Kuang, Katabasis
years ago someone suggested using the word devotion instead of discipline and I swear it’s the only reason I am so committed to the things that I love ~ bc devotion is an act of love ~ while discipline feels like an act of force
viendasubstack.comonce again, I am deeply disgusted that I must first be bad at something in order to get good at it
Internet Peoplesubstack.comMaybe this phase of your journey is supposed to be about preparation. Maybe it’s about developing the courage to take those first steps. Maybe it’s about finding the stamina to keep going even when you’re challenged, even when you become discouraged, even on the days you feel exhausted and it seems as though you’ll never arrive. Maybe this part of
... See moreBrianna Wiest • The Pivot Year
Nothing feels all the way right at the beginning, because nothing is completely familiar at the beginning. What you often don’t account for is that your sense of comfort and correctness tends to be rooted in familiarity. The question is not whether something makes you feel immediately as though you’re unquestionably fated for it, but whether or not
... See moreBrianna Wiest • The Pivot Year
Maybe you don’t need to find more energy, maybe you just need to find a dream that makes you actually want to get up in the morning. Maybe you need to find something that gives back more than it takes. Maybe you need to stop trying to be good at the hundred things that do not light up your soul, and finally choose the one that does—the
Brianna Wiest • The Pivot Year
It’s time to learn how to use what you already have, and be as you really are. It’s time to stop waiting for some future scenario to bring your dreams into the light, but to dig them out from beneath your fear and begin.
Brianna Wiest • The Pivot Year
You will not truly feel settled until you have done what you came here to do. Until you have reached into yourself and pulled out the most glimmering thing about you, and held it up for the world to see. Until you have completed the work that only you could do, in only the way that you can do it. Until you have made your gifts into an offering.
... See moreBrianna Wiest • The Pivot Year
You may fear the quiet times in your life, when your soul goes through a winter. However, it’s often those same times when the most profound and human work of all is being completed. Be still. Do nothing. It is both the quiet and the noise that writes the symphony,