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The end game was never convenience but a texture-rich life that challenges and rewards us. Not happiness as a frictionless state, but satisfaction ear
The moat of low status is one of my favorite concepts, courtesy of my husband Sasha. The idea is that making changes in your life, especially when lea
what would one imperfect action teach me?
Writer Hanif Abdurraqib has said: “Find a living, breathing lineage to make yourself responsible to.” I love this encouragement to locate ourselves wi
I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing about housecleaning.
Here are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown t
Increasingly, the work that stand out will be more raw and incomplete (because — by definition — new ideas haven’t been optimized because…they are new
Creativity, Tinker likes to say, is a function of the “library in your head.” “When you sit down to create something…what you create is a culmination
“Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.” ― John O'Donohue
“If you don’t save a bit of your time for you, now, out of every week,” as she puts it, “there is no moment in the future when you’ll magically be don
Author Elizabeth Gilbert on time management: “If you’ve reached a certain age then you know what works for you. You should know by this point in yo
Why would focus compound? Part of it is time. If you care about less, you spend more time doing what you care about most. Also, you are always noncons
