Things to come back to when I’m feeling meh
As Anaïs Nin wrote, “When we go deeply into the personal, we go beyond the personal. We achieve something that is collective.”
Suleika Jaouad • The Book of Alchemy
My high-level advice—which supersedes everything below—is that you should decide what you want from your writing, and then completely ignore any advice which detracts from this goal. This includes advice which is practically sound but psychologically destructive when it comes to sustaining motivation.
Celine Nguyen • In Praise of Writing on the Internet
For the aspirant, there’s nothing more comforting than realizing you are not alone in trying. You’re not alone in trying to find a subject, trying to develop the discipline, trying to turn your life towards something that you can’t quite understand yet.
how to change your life, part 2: agnes callard's aspiration
Explaining creative 'Resistance': the more important a project is to your soul's growth, the more fear it generates.
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And I'd like your reflections on it and what you intended when you said it, which is, quote, the more important to your soul's growth, the stronger the resistance will be, which for me was very counterintuitive.
We all imagine the creative process as one of, you know, being inspired. Oh, this is my soul's work. and having a ton of motivation to
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The psychological roots of status anxiety and how a good childhood enables the acceptance of an ordinary adult life.
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and if you think about the impulse to be rich and famous and esteemed it's really a desire that gets soaked up by religions religions are saying everybody you know in in christianity every hair on your head is numbered in other words someone's really looking at you someone knows you in the way that a parent a good parent knows a child you know the
... See moreI couldn’t help but come to the conviction, right there on the bus, that one of the most important questions modern man must ask himself is how much time he is willing to spend being passively entertained.
The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
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