There is a certain irony in giving a practical guide to being creative, especially in an age when Romantic idealism still hangs around in the form of our own desires to have been born with an innate ability to do whatever we see is creative.

This article is a fairly long account of how to be creative that is both down-to-earth and witty, encouraging yet careful.

With such items as “You are responsible for your own experience,” “Keep your day job,” “If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you,” and “Dying young is overrated,” I think you’ll find it an amusing mix of post-Sartrean existentialism, American pragmatism, Stoicism, and winking sarcasm.

Experiencing writer’s block? Frustration with a paper? If you have a moment, glance at the list, chuckle, go boil yourself some Turkish coffee, and come back to it.

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There is a certain irony in giving a practical guide to being creative, especially in an age when Romantic idealism still hangs around in the form of our own desires to have been born with an innate ability to do whatever we see is creative.

This article is a fairly long account of how to be creative that is both down-to-earth and witty, encouraging yet careful.

With such items as “You are responsible for your own experience,” “Keep your day job,” “If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you,” and “Dying young is overrated,” I think you’ll find it an amusing mix of post-Sartrean existentialism, American pragmatism, Stoicism, and winking sarcasm.

Experiencing writer’s block? Frustration with a paper? If you have a moment, glance at the list, chuckle, go boil yourself some Turkish coffee, and come back to it.

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