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Austin Kleon on Writing, Creativity and The Importance of Idleness

Not Overthinking

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Is That the Right Metaphor?

Salega: Sometimes it's a matter of not even thinking about a story and the way we traditionally think about a story, because stories are artificial. Salega: People who think about their lives as, you know, how do you see your life? Do you see a time line, or do you see loops like this? This is such an interesting question. I'm someone that always tries to, i'm trying, one of the ways that i learned as i'm like, maybe there are different metaphors.

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