“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.”
— Bruce Lee
You don’t find your ground by looking for stability. You find your ground by relaxing into instability. via
First of all, once you have a paid product it can make perfect sense to make certain things freely available. via
Chandler explained: “The important thing is that there should be a space of time time, say four hours a day at least, when a writer doesn’t do anything else but write. He doesn’t have to write, and if doesn’t feel like it, he shouldn’t try. He can look out the window or stand on his head or writhe on the floor. But he is not to do any other positive thinking—not read, write letters, glance at magazines, or write checks. Either write or nothing.” Either write or random episodic silent thought. When those are your only options, Chandler said, you will write “just to keep from being bored. I find it works. Two very simple rules: a. You don’t have to write. b. You can’t do anything else.” via
在与汉克·阿扎里亚的《离场镜头》节目中，阿扎里亚解释了“完美和一致性”如何妨碍了出色的表演。在约55分钟处，他谈到了一位他钦佩的女演员：
她从不以相同的方式演绎，大多数情况下她的表演不好，她一次只记得三行台词。她的表演非常多变。而我却一直在努力表演得如同在百老汇舞台上一样，每次都要表现得出色、一致，让人赞叹！然后，在剪辑室里，她会把我远远甩在后面。那些之前的拍摄似乎都不重要，因为其中有两三个镜头让人惊叹。她知道她在做什么，这需要很大的勇气。
That's the way creativity works, Dylan told Robert Hilburn, of the Los Angeles Times. You're always writing into a tradition. "My songs are either based on old Protestant hymns or Carter Family songs or variations of the blues form," he said. "What happens is, I'll take a song I know and simply start playing it in my head. That's the way I meditate. . . . I'll be playing Bob Nolan's 'Tumbling Tumbleweeds,' for instance, in my head constantly--while I'm driving a car or talking to a person or sitting around or whatever. People will think they are talking to me and I'm talking back, but I'm not. I'm listening to a song in my head. At a certain point, some of the words will change and I'll start writing a song." via
我们家基本上不开电视，晚上也没人抱着手机和iPad（有时还是会瞅一眼），JT 和他哥小时候不一样，也就没有看电视和手机iPad的习惯，晚上玩玩积木，和我玩玩球，或是我抱着他讲讲故事，这样很好。JR呢，写完作业就弹琴，和弟弟玩，或者边听HomePod里的音乐，边和我们聊天。
如果电视手机突然从所有家庭消失，每个人的幸福感都会增加，我想。
Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. - Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If the person tells you why their city, relationship, or job is great - take it with a pinch of salt. If they tell you why it’s terrible - take it like a handful of gold. If someone swims upstream against their identity or incentives, it probably holds some deep truth to it.
我幼时，有一位最敬爱的国文教师看出我不知摆脱的毛病，尝在我的课卷后面加这样的批语：“长枪短戟，用各不同，但精其一，已足致胜。汝才有偏向，姑发展其所长，不必广心博骛也。”十年以来，说了许多废话，看了许多废书，做了许多不中用的事，走了许多没有目标的路，多尝试，少成功，回忆师训，殊觉赧然，冷眼观察，世间像我这样暗中摸索的人正亦不少。大节固不用说，请问街头那纷纷群众忙的为什么？为什么天天做明知其无聊的工作，说明知其无聊的话，和明知其无聊的朋友们假意周旋？在我看来，这都由于”摆脱不开”。因为人人都”摆脱不开”，所以生命便成了一幕最大的悲剧。 - 朱光潜
There's no sort of feedback mechanism which rewards low time preference behavior because making a sacrifice now is essentially the crux of low time preference behavior, is that you sacrifice now so you can have something later. But under a fiat standard, what you get is you sacrifice now and it doesn't matter. So of course you have less motivation, less incentive to make sacrifices now. And that's something that I think a lot of people kind of realize, is that you can kind of live paycheck to paycheck and not worry about tomorrow and things will be kind of okay and you're not sort of improving, but you're ossified in whatever sort of lifestyle you're in. And it's stagnation, I guess, but people are okay with it. via
There isn't any symbolism [in The Old Man and the Sea]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit.
Ernest Hemingway
Letter to Bernard Berenson
13th September 1952
Whenever you can, tell stories instead of explaining stuff. Humans love stories, and we hate having stuff explained to us. Use Jesus as an example: He spoke almost exclusively in parables, and allowed everybody to draw their own lessons from his great storytelling. And he did very well. via
If you don't go out of your way to be hated by bad people, you are probably doing less good than you can. via