Michael Brooks
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Michael Brooks
this hurdle I have to jump over each time I write: How can I say this more crisply? When I write (which is really just to say: when I think) it all boils down to one simple, but utterly excruciating question: What am I really trying to say here?
Isabel Hazan • distillation
“Sometimes fear does not subside and you must do it afraid.”
– Elisabeth Elliot
– Elisabeth Elliot
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
— Annie Dillard, ’The Writing Life’, 1989
on writing and ideas
Ideas come from noticing gaps in what we believe is established thinking.
Connecting into why it’s valuable. Sometimes you get so lost in a project that you forget why you started it in the first place, or why doing this kind of work is important to you at all. If you reconnect to that, you’ll raise the perceived value of doing the work in your brain—and it will make it easier to stick with. Try writing about why the... See more
Dan Shipper • Why You're Not Doing Creative Work
Here’s a short audio reflection from the Waking Up app:
https://dynamic.wakingup.com/moment/MO55B39?share_id=A02967D1&code=SC67B5846
https://dynamic.wakingup.com/moment/MO55B39?share_id=A02967D1&code=SC67B5846