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Maria Popova of Brain Pickings

The One You Feed

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How to Be a Successful Writer

I think Kickstarter has done tremendous things for creative culture today and I am a regular and very sort of avid supporter of projects and Kickstarter but I also think it's breeding a certain mentality in people that they want the safety net the assurance before they even begin yeah. to be willing to kind of suffer through a bunch of stuff and mostly suffer through uncertainty for a long period of time before you can have your own answer. If it's a long-term commitment there is no safety net you weave your own safety net like a little spider chipping away every single morning when you wake up. Not everybody has a tolerance for that but back to the point of putting into the world the kinds of things that

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