Life Advice
Kevin Kelly‘s Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wished I’d Known Earlier, was a perfect quick rainy day cottage read. It’s a collection of advice which the author has gathered in their 70-plus years on earth. Some are pithy aphorisms, like ‘If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a pyramid scheme.’ Very true.
Though generally pithy and easy to digest, the chunks of advice sometimes come a little longer, like this (still brief) thought about creativity:
Seperate the processes of creating from improving. You can’t write and edit, or sculpt and polish, or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don’t select. While you sketch, don’t inspect. While you write the first draft, don’t reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgement.