creative minds don’t distinguish between work and non work
I used to struggle w needing to be “creative” or “original” in my work. At some point I had a breakthrough that really helped me: I cannot repeat an idea, no matter how basic or common, without imparting some of my worldview into it.
The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance . For that reason, it just might be the strangest travel book ever written—because most of the journey happens inside the narrator’s head.
But maybe that’s part of the story too. Pirsig... See more