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    1. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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      Took some time to get out of the house and reflect on the previous tweet I made about not being able to write—in return, here’s an exploration of what causes creative block, how not to be spontaneous, and the paradox of desire and result:

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    2. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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      I started off trying I tried @_LukeMcBain_’s advice to speak aloud from the perspective of the writing block (normally used to this practice from Gendlin Focusing), and it was as if my throat seized up every time I tried to say something that wasn’t pre-meditated, predigested.

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    3. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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      In fact, I realized just how impossible it was for me to simply let myself act: I couldn’t just speak from the gut, but kept having to come up with thoughts and speculations about what I needed / why this was happening in advance of the act of speaking.

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    4. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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      I remember being so happy to just paint/write stupid shit as a kid and in following what happened since then...the simplest explanation for this inhibition is formal education, to be honest.

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    5. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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      This rigidity is vividly described in Keith Johnstone’s Impro: education doesn’t simply add quantities of knowledge based on how good a teacher is, it can also break things in the process.pic.twitter.com/IDsOcKecqt

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    6. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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      It’s not as if spontaneity or self-accomplishing action is unnatural or special. I don’t have to plan out every word in my next sentence in a conversation. Even if I ponder a range of potential things to say, the select options for thought comes unbidden, without conscious will.

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      Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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      You start getting into trouble when you deliberate each and every thing you have to say or do, or let the goal interfere with the process of accomplishment.

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        2. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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          Meta Aesthetics Retweeted Michael Ashcroft

          @m_ashcroft’s threads and descriptions of Alexander Technique have also clarified this issue of wanting to stop doing something—you can’t make yourself relax, you can only stop doing non-relaxation.https://twitter.com/m_ashcroft/status/1219378825122975745?s=20 …

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          Michael Ashcroft @m_ashcroft
          1/ Non-doing is not the same as doing nothing, because doing nothing is still doing. They're the same thing. Non-doing is neither of these: non-doing is the absence of doing. This distinction is as crucial as it is subtle. We've been conditioned by the cult of doing.
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        3. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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          The greater your goal, the larger the shadow it casts, and the more fears and anxieties tend to latch onto it like a parasite. After all, if you want something so badly, the idea of not having it becomes intolerable.

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        4. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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          I’ve grown used to obsessing over abstract results instead of genuine qualities and acts—that’s all my education was.

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        5. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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          What is an A+ if not some diffuse symbol for a quality that isn’t even intellect (more test-taking savvy and time management, if anything) that you do nothing but desire and obsess over? But education isn’t all to blame, many people go through it without this level of inhibition

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        6. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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          (My hypothesis is that I get stuck on a loop between obsession over perceived needs and listless apathy towards them because I am so used to not having my needs met / tamping them down as a defense mechanism, but that’s for another thread.)

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        7. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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          If your goal could change your entire life, it also has the power to uproot many other sources of safety and inhibition in the process. If I let myself freely think of the inconveniences of letting myself be truly committed to a creative practice, I can come up with plenty:

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        8. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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          - My friends and family will know I’m a complete lunatic if they see that I want to write about weird shit - If I have something I love to do and yearn for, I’ll feel terrible without it, and I don’t want that contrast Like playing whack-a-mole: hit one, three others pop up

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        9. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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          Whether these worries make logical sense isn’t the point. The part of me that keeps generating them is not conscious and doesn’t listen to logic in the first place.

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        10. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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          Procrastination makes the work so urgent / stressful that the parts of you in conflict just shut up and get along to fix it at the last moment. When exhausted or stressed enough, the extra layer of forced effort falls away. Not the most pleasant way to get the job done...

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        11. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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          A lot of advice on motivation and productivity involves trying to make goals have more gravitas: clarifying their benefits, making them the most important part of the day, etc.

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        12. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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          This does work for a lot of people, but if there is a part of you that strongly resists any kind of pressure or weight because it can’t handle the presence of such a burden, it is a counterproductive approach.

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        13. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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          Desire is supposed to be aspirational and can be a vehicle towards what you want, but it must not become more important than the experience of what you are aiming for.

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        14. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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          Oddly enough, some of the clearest writing that has gotten this point across to me is from occult/magic texts: getting what you want means completely letting go of the state of hoping or desiring for what you want! You can’t make both work at oncepic.twitter.com/y1SB5OsWjG

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        15. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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          It reminds me of how “productivity porn” ends up working: you don’t end up actually accomplishing what you wished to do, but instead focus on experiencing the means for the goal / collecting fancy notebooks and apps. Akin to the appeal of a Rube Goldberg device.

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        16. Meta Aesthetics‏ @Meta_Aesthetic Apr 29
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          It feels like I’m slowly sneaking up to some experiential understanding or realization about this, but it’s a strange and convoluted process. When you hit the bottom, sometimes you just have to dig sideways.

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