creativity
Brain off
How to reset when every hour of every day is out of your hands
When guilt follows you everywhere, when there’s always something else to do, something that should be done first
Why is brain rot so shameful?
I need a camera, an outlet, a notebook that I don’t use because I don’t bring it anywhere
Where do I put all these thoughts?
Do I overhaul
... See morethe second you have the answer, the question dies. You trade the aliveness of curiosity for the flatness of a fact. Being interesting isn’t about how fast you can recall information, but about the texture of your thoughts, the way you connect ideas, the questions you carry with you. That only happens when you let something linger.
how to become gently interesting
The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe) (La trahison des images [Ceci n'est pas une pipe]) | LACMA Collections
collections.lacma.orgWriting is meant to take something out of you.
Let it hurt, welcome that hole in your heart, the sore hands, and tweaked wrist, the strained eyes. You pulled something from within yourself and make the physical, immovable motion to put it into the world. It’s a straining draining process. Let it demean you. Insult you. Harm you. Cheat you. Tease
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