Yesterday a friend called, quite frustrated to be very stuck on a project. My impulse was to find ways to unstick him, but I realized: we absolutely have to cultivate the ability to be content while totally stuck! If we're doing interesting work, we'll be stuck most of our lives!
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(Easier said than done, of course, but it hadn't occurred to me quite so baldly that I should *expect* to be stuck as my default state.)
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Relatedly (about mundane setbacks rather than serious and pervasive creative blocks) I love this 5m mini-talk from Sam Harris called "Solving Problems": facebook.com/Samharrisorg/v (very sorry, it appears the only public URL is on Facebook—transcript below, but performance is v good)
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> “Why do you think you shouldn’t be having the problems that you’re having?”
— David Schnarch
malcolmocean.com/2017/11/transc
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Yeah! Idk if you just looked at the quote or also the article linked there, but it's one of my best pieces of writing 😊
(As measured by people telling me it brought them to tears or changed their life)
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