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Full-of-himself !
Poverty is poverty only when you have no means to make your life better. Suffering form special snowflake syndrome is not poverty.
I stopped reading this "treatise" when in the first paragraph Aaron spoke highly of the war criminal Donald Rumsfeld.
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I think this is a sentiment most people share, because most creative people only output—at most—a few masterworks in their lifetimes. I bet the people who are constantly pumping out works that, on their own, would be considered achievements—the Picassos and Frank Zappas and Stephen Kings of the world—have a pretty different view on how much of creating something good is inspiration vs. a schlepp.
Any famous writer I've ever read about has said that the amateur waits for inspiration, whereas the professional just sits down and gets to work. 12 months from now you won't be able to tell what you wrote while inspired and what while schlepping.
Also, how will you ever improve in something if you only do it while inspired? And how will your inspired work be any good if you have no practice and experience to build upon?
I stopped reading this "treatise" when in the first paragraph Aaron spoke highly of the war criminal Donald Rumsfeld.
That makes the provocateur comment of yours a bit ironic doesn't it.
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Any famous writer I've ever read about has said that the amateur waits for inspiration, whereas the professional just sits down and gets to work. 12 months from now you won't be able to tell what you wrote while inspired and what while schlepping.
Yes, this is so important to communicate. I think "waiting for inspiration" is a bad approach and bad advice for anyone who want to do something professionally. Unless you are inspired 20-40 hours per week, only hobbyists have the luxury of waiting for inspiration. Also, how will you ever improve in something if you only do it while inspired? And how will your inspired work be any good if you have no practice and exp…
That reminds me of this amazing talk called Why Greatness Cannot be Planned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI TLDV: Innovation is not driven by narrowly focused heroic effort. We'd be wiser and the outcomes would be better if instead we whole-heartedly embraced serendipitous discovery and playful creativity. We can potentially achieve more by following a non-objective yet still principled path, after throw…
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Yes, this is so important to communicate. I think "waiting for inspiration" is a bad approach and bad advice for anyone who want to do something professionally. Unless you are inspired 20-40 hours per week, only hobbyists have the luxury of waiting for inspiration. Also, how will you ever improve in something if you only do it while inspired? And how will your inspired work be any good if you have no practice and exp…
The main thing is that getting 4 masterpieces is extremely likely if you produce 10,000 works, and next to impossible if you produce only 4.
Off-topic but: Hooray for transcripts! I can see the benefits of being able to hear the pauses, tone, inflections, etc. but even leaving aside the deaf and hearing-impaired, there are so many advantages to having the text (it's searchable, you can read it while listening to music, it's quicker to read it than to listen to it).