On interesting
Cultivating a point of view, finding ideas, understanding what Interesting is.
by Lauren Crichton · updated 13d ago
On interesting
Cultivating a point of view, finding ideas, understanding what Interesting is.
by Lauren Crichton · updated 13d ago
“I am only interested in people as long as they are unpredictable to me. If I can predict what you’ll do or say, I’ll lose interest in you rapidly. If you can keep regularly surprising me in some way, forcing me to actually think in unscripted ways in order to respond, I’ll stay interested. It’s reciprocal. I suspect the people with whom I dev
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“Consider how different your experience of the world might be if you engaged in every activity with the attention you might give to landing a plane.”
— Rick Rubin The Creative Act
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“The next day we had a late breakfast and Susie and Lucy began reminiscing. I excused myself and wandered around the grounds, eventually coming upon a high hedge that surrounded a swimming pool. I lay down on a lounger next to the pool and took out my pen and notebook to write, but it was hot, and I soon fell asleep.
After a while, I awoke
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“I came to understand the [meditation] task not as emptying your head of thoughts, but rather resisting the tendency to narrate things to yourself in words. I noticed that this interior monologuing would lead me along familiar, superficial trains of thought, to recent memories associated with certain feelings, say, and soon enough back to mundane a
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Alicia Kennedy also talking about the need to limit social media to do good work:
“The slowness I’ve forced upon myself—when it comes to how many essays I’m writing per year, how much I can use social media—has brought my brain back from the brink, to a place where I am excited and invigorated to be myself. “
Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of b
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“There was something heavy in me. … I wasn’t doing the right thing. I was just trying to copy exactly everything I had learned. And I think that happens in every craft in life. You’re young. You have a master. You want to emulate them, do what they do. But at some point in life, you have to turn around and say I have to find my own way in my own la
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“And I don’t tire of it; I don’t tire at all, not one bit, of the feeling of excitement bubbling up in me with a new affinity for new works that spark new connections, new roads. My brain holds the map of my affinities, but I never know where it will take me.” — Alicia Kennedy
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