Please don't throw your mind away
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Please don't throw your mind away
Procrastinate: If at first you don’t succeed, give up immediately, move on to some other task until that becomes unbearable then move on again circling back around to the first problem. By now, your subconscious will have worked on it, sort of like sleep, only cheaper.
Amy Whitaker • Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
”In my experience, here’s how essays form: You get all these bits of data that stick in your head… file drawers in your head. At a certain point you realize one of the drawers is now full, and you might have an essay.” Tim Kreider on the artist at midlife.
There’s also a great anecdote from Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman, where he talks about how physics used to delight him when he used to play with it, but then it started to disgust him when he got burdened by this idea that he was obligated to advance the future of science. That he was supposed to be doing “important” work.
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