Mickey Patel

I noticed this after spotting my favorite bloggers—including Paul Graham, Angela Jiang, and Derek Sivers—post erratically whereas the writers I often regret reading publish as much as they can.)

Whether something is possible or impossible is not your business. Success and failure are ideas that will only serve as a burden to your quest. Rather than finding the thing that you can imagine yourself becoming, find the thing that you simply cannot imagine yourself Not Becoming.

Life has never had any meaning. The meaning that one finds in life is the meaning he ascribes to it.

Yes, some of my most transcendent moments have been during episodes of inspiration, or when I’m experiencing the magnificent creations of others.

We think of ourselves as fixed and the world as malleable, but it’s really we who are malleable and the world is largely fixed.

If you think about something as you are looking at it, you will not have truly seen it. Thought stands as a barrier between You and The Experience. When one Experiences, there is no thought. When there is no thought, there is no mind. When there is no mind, there is Atmamun.

Ed Sheeran and Neil Gaiman are in the top 0.000001% of their fields. They're among, say, 25 people in the world who repeatedly generate blockbusters.

If two world-class creators share the exact same creative process, I get curious. Also, while writing this, I found a video of John Mayer doing the same thing.

I call their approach the Creativity