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LM: #274: Perspire, inspired
While my journal-writing sessions are relatively effortless, there is another type of writing session that is very effortful.
Those are the sessions in which I’m repeatedly hitting mental roadblocks. In which I’m not limited by my knowledge with the subject nor comfort with the truth, but but by my ability to find an insight.
I sense something is there, and methodically approach the subject from various angles. But that source of irony, that contradiction, or that surprising juxtaposition remains elusive.
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It’s when I’m regularly doing effortful though not always fruitful writing sessions something else happens. While on a walk or talking to a friend or in the shower, I’ll have frequent aha! moments. Not always about what I’ve been writing about, but about any random thing.
The more hours I spend effortfully forcing myself to write, the more seemingly-random moments of inspiration I experience.
Inspiration is a muscle. You must perspire to be inspired.
Aphorism: “We’re smart enough to invent AI, dumb enough to need it, and still so stupid we can’t figure out if we did the right thing.” —Jerry Seinfeld
Book: Nobody should read Sex at Dawn without also reading Sex at Dusk (Amazon). It’s a less engaging yet more rigorous takedown of the former.
Best,
David
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