Salman Ansari
@salmanscribbles
embracing my inner polymath — writing, drawing, coding, playing
Salman Ansari
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Why Look at Animals: John Berger on What Our Relationship with Our Fellow Beings Reveals About Us
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Chesterton on why children ought to be told fairy tales
Kafka urges the young man to stay present with his difficult emotions:
Just be quiet and patient. Let evil and unpleasantness pass quietly over you. Do not try to avoid them. On the contrary, observe them carefully. Let active understanding take the place of reflex irritation, and you will grow out of your trouble. Men can achieve greatness only by surmounting their own littleness.
On people who are INTO it:
Have you ever had the experience, Jerry asks, where you look at something and go, ‘Wow, whoever made that—they were INTO it!’? “That’s what I care about. That’s all I care about. I don’t care about traits or techniques, I don’t care what you do or how you do it—I just want to see people and talk to people and be around peo
... See moreFrom here, my recommendations go niche, and I want to make a case for why.
For any writer, but especially a writer of fiction, this is an arbitrage play. You don’t want to be reading the books that everybody else is reading. Possibly you don’t want to be reading the books that ANYbody else is reading. This is totally achievable; there are plenty... See more
For any writer, but especially a writer of fiction, this is an arbitrage play. You don’t want to be reading the books that everybody else is reading. Possibly you don’t want to be reading the books that ANYbody else is reading. This is totally achievable; there are plenty... See more
Status and the Illusion of Progress - More To That
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“status is one of our greatest poisons. Because the pursuit of it is the very antithesis of knowing yourself. Anytime you play a status game, you take on the perspective of an outsider looking in, judging who you are based on whatever metric or position you’re chasing. You give credence to the belief that you’re not enough, and that there’s something you need to achieve to finally accept who you are. But of course, any chase of this nature has no end, given that your very participation in this chase means that self-acceptance isn’t possible.”
He said that it’s a very good idea that after you write a little bit, stop and then copy it. Because while you’re copying it, you’re thinking about it, and it’s giving you other ideas. And that’s the way I work. And it’s marvelous, just wonderful, the relationship between working and copying.