On interesting
Cultivating a point of view, finding ideas, understanding what Interesting is.
On interesting
I can’t tell you how often half-remembered tales or misheard sentences find their way into songs. These things are ingested in what I think of as inhalation mode. I find that I am drawn inexplicably to certain flames of interest (books, films, works of art, jaw-dropping gossip) and am so dazzled by their brilliance that I come away scorched by only... See more
Laura Marling • The Tarot of Songwriting 08 - Strength
“When it comes to business and careers, the more interesting people will succeed and capture more upside than ever before.
Because the uninteresting ones will get commoditized (hello 🤖).
And by interesting I mean being capable of analyzing, deciding, and executing in a way few others can.
Generating more unique ideas, understanding complex things
... See moreExpression is compression
It takes 50 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup. So whenever I feel like I don’t have enough ideas to create something meaningful, I go collect more experiences and spend time processing them by writing and talking to friends.
Even writers who work full-time spend most of their hours away from the keyboard. Full-time
... See more“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
“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
... See moreAlicia 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. “