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Phyllis Korkki

The Big Thing

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  • Keisha Baldonadohat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    We may be too shy to tell other people about our creative goal, so no one even knows to expect something.
  • Minda Peraltahat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    Today we are pressured by social media to present an artificial self, in the form of posts and tweets, YouTube videos, and Instagrams. Some people mold and remold their online selves, the better to receive likes and thumbs-up, tweets, and other forms of approval.
  • b8826159080hat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
    139 “Kafka’s job, while imposing an onerous routine”: Ernst Pawel, The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984), 174–75
  • b8826159080hat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
    Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen; The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern; and Wool, by Hugh Howey.
  • b8826159080hat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
    have come to realize that the most important thing to do in order to finish a big creative project is this: understand what motivates you, and create a structure to support th
  • b8826159080hat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
    y recent research, would gradually become automatic and then be off-loaded to my basal ganglia in the form of a habit.
    But app
  • b8826159080hat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
    rong.
    How much better a book would this have been if I gotten up every single day from 7 to 9 a.m. to work on it, and again in the evening from 9 to 10?
    That had been my fantasy at the start of this project. Instead, on many, many mornings, despite having planned, even vowed, to work on the book, I lolled in my bed, played with my cat, read a Scandinavian mystery, and fell back asleep.
    Beautiful wisps of sentences appeared in my head as I lay in bed. I must write them down, I thought, but not yet. It felt so good to lie down, basking in the potential of my words.
    And then, once I got up, there were things I needed to check: my email, my Facebook, my Twitter account, the papers, Match.com. After I had done all these things, it would be time to go to work, or, if it was the weekend, to go back to bed and read.
  • b8826159080hat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
    power of increments, no matter how erratically they may accrue
  • b8826159080hat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
    Masters and Young Geniuses
  • b8826159080hat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
    mber carrying around Sartre’s Being and Nothingness,
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