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Austin Kleon on Writing, Creativity and The Importance of Idleness

Not Overthinking

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The Comedy of Survival

i think there's this balance between finding what you're personally passionate about, but then being flexible and understanding that you're part of a context in which you had no part in chooseit. I just read a book called am the comedy of survival. It was written by a guy named joseph meeker in the seventies. There are essentially two modes in western life - tragic mode or comedic mode. i want to be a a, you know, i want toBe a a,. You just some job title. The job you want might not be invented yet, right?

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