There’s an axiom in the theatre – don’t do it unless you can’t do anything else.
It’s believed that there is a lot of struggling to succeed there, so if you have interests outside of it, it’s better to pursue those. If not…
That is to say, if you happen to only have passion for one thing, then then that’s would you should be doing.
I didn’t intend to aim for one a day again. But it has happened this past week.
The important thing is to make time for the important things. Don’t get caught up in the concern about its viability.
It’s great to help. But you can easily overextend.
Choose time to be selfish with. Morning, weekend, some time that is just yours. And don’t let it go.
Someone said that all people either give or take or do some combination of both.
Yes, and…
Reductively – Giving is a charitable act Taking, selfish. When is the right time to use either?
Someone told me recently that there were more books in the public domain than any one person could read in a lifetime.
Sure, most of them read as old or outdated. But classics are classics for a reason.
And while there are those afraid of what AI will do to book writing, the true problem remains the same:
How to find an audience for your work.
With anything you do burnout is a very real threat.
It isn’t always about retreating away or shutting down.
Sometimes you just need to fill the well, and you should trust yourself to know how best to do that.
We don’t always think about how curated the content we see is.
Isn’t as if there’s this one person directing content to our devices, or a Big Brother-esque organization.
Nonetheless, what we see is heavily affected by how some system determines our preferences.
And as we respond to their prompts, we become more like they think we are, and it’s an endless cycle.
That’s odd to me.
There’s a downside to having a bevy of interests.
Curiosity can send you down a rabbit hole of exploration.
The opportunity cost is, obviously, time not devoted elsewhere.
In my head, I say the things I tell others not to say.
I want to create something. I don’t have enough time. And in those particularly bad instances, I’m not good enough.
But it’s all resistance. Which is just another name for fear.
When we revere, we risk losing critical thought.
Facing a closer look, they rarely hold up to reverence.
They say never meet your heroes. Because the lives of those are rarely different than our own.
