Dea T.

Experience. Don’t observe.

Inhale. Don’t read.

Transfigure. Don’t shift.

Advocate. Don’t ponder.

Prove. Don’t promise.

Encourage. Don’t cut.

Imagine. Don’t worry.

Do. Don’t analyze.

Hear. Don’t listen.

Show. Don’t tell.

Give. Don’t take.

A biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.


2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.


3. There is no editing stage.


4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.


5. Banish