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Austin Kleon on Writing, Creativity and The Importance of Idleness

Not Overthinking

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The Things That Make a Movie Interesting Are the Tension and the Struggle and the Struggle

He wrote all the books, and then some hollywood film crew approached him about turning his life into a movie. He realized that for him, once he had written a few books and had been quite successful, he had stopped striving for things and had stopped struggling. And at that point he was like, oshet, i need to start struggling more ad sort of. Then he started actively going out of his way to do things outside of his comforts ownd like cycling, you know, a thousand miles across america,. or finding his dad, who abandoned him when he was young and long lost - but from the mine set of, i need this to be a good story. That

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