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Austin Kleon on Writing, Creativity and The Importance of Idleness

Not Overthinking

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Are You Searching for Your Interests?

People are much better served by forgetting about what noun you want to be and think about what verb you want to do. My kids have encouraged me in my life to think deeply about what i actually care about. You can get to be 34, 50, 60, 70 years old and not really know what you're truly passionate or what you care about. I just read a book called 'meeker in the seventies' It's very hard to find but there are essentially two modes in western culture: tragic mode and comedic mode.

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