Insights
#277 Feel the words
If you know what you want to say but you can’t find the words yet, write without thinking about the words. Write while thinking about the feeling. Allow yourself to feel it first. Feel it fully, then write the words. Feel it fully, let stream-of-consciousness words come out.. Feel it fully, then start sculpting away.
#276 Re-interpreting setbacks
If you know the journey of writing a book is filled with days where you won’t feel like writing, days where you won’t feel like writing aren’t a distraction – they’re a sign you’re on the right path. After all, if you know setbacks are what makes your journey your journey, how could your journey
#275 What happens when you stop fighting yourself
The moment you accept you don’t feel like writing today and tell yourself that’s fine, is the moment you’ll write again. Because you can only know and do what’s best for you when you stop fighting yourself.
#274 On endings and beginnings
Does a day end, or does a new one start? Does the end of a book chapter signal termination, or does it serve as a gateway to an unexplored continuation? Maybe we don’t need to arbitrarily mark endings and beginnings in lives that consist of an uninterrupted flow. Maybe we’re just a tiny plot in
#273 Why you should be wrong with conviction
When you’re right, be right with conviction so you truly reap all the benefits. When you’re wrong, be wrong with conviction so you truly learn your lesson. Because the more intense the pleasure, the deeper the pain, the more you learn.
#272 Creation vs Stagnation
Believing that it’s possible your wildest dreams can become reality is just as irrational as believing that it’s impossible. Irrational, but not equal, because one leads to creation, the other to stagnation. Choose wisely.
#271 What are you practicing today?
Are you practicing writing? Or giving up writing?Are you practicing persevering? Or giving up?Are you practicing doing what you know is good for you? Or ignoring what you know is good for you? You’re always practicing something. And what you practice, you’ll become good at. And what you practice will persist.
#270 When it’s better to be wrong
Thought of the day: it’s better to be proven wrong than to be paralyzed in doubt.
#270 How to gain trust, acceptance, and comfort
It’s hard not to trust someone who fully trusts themselves. But it’s hard not to accept someone who fully accepts themselves. It’s hard not to be at ease around someone fully at ease with themselves. In other words: if you want others to trust, accept, and be at ease with you, first learn to trust,
#268 Act on this one first
Write before you start finding reasons not to write. Run before you start finding reasons not to run. Love before you start finding reasons not to love. Before you react to what you fear in the world around you, act on what you feel in the world inside you.
#267 Why intensity fades and consistency leads to change
When you write 50 pages a day, only to be forced to recover for a month. When you start running 5 miles a day without any preparation, only to end up injured. When you start studying a language for 5 hours a day, only to give up after a week. When you fly so close
#266 When you stop worrying, you know
You know you’re a writer when you stop worrying about whether you’ll write or not. Self-trust always comes first.