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THE PERFECTION MONSTER
Perfection is an idiot wearing social acceptance as a mask.
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THE 15% POWER-CRAVING ACCOUNTANT: YOUR HEAD
Ever noticed how when you think you can’t do something and then you see yourself do it anyway?
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GOO
We think caterpillars become butterflies as though they just go into a cocoon, slap on wings and are good to go. Caterpillar has to dissolve into a disgusting pile of goo to become butterflies. Whenever you’re a mess, you’re probably in the right place, ergo á lá Latin,
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WRITING: THE DEAD-ZONE
When you write, somewhere between contraction (tension) and relaxation is something that might be named as the dead-zone.
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THE VALUE OF NOT PREPARING
Most of the ‘writing dilemmas’ stem from one fundamental error. The error of skipping the steps a part of you know you can’t skip. Training steps. Preparation steps. Mistake steps. We start writing and become surprised by not getting instant success, followed by disappointment and self-loathing.
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RELAXING TECHNIQUE
“No Responsibility” Whenever you realize that you’re doing many things at the same time, the causation is almost always that you’ve become too emotional. So you’ll need to track back, using the following model: Being too emotional is a direct relation to responsibility. The degree of that
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PROTECT YOUR FEET
Using fear against fear, what is the essential difference between each side?
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CHECK FOR FINGERPRINTS
No matter how hard you try. You’ll never find a solution to writing fear.
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HOW CAN I WRITE WHEN NOTHING IS GOOD ENOUGH?
High five if you’ve ever felt this: “I don’t want to write because if I write one thing, that means I’m not writing another thing at the same time.” This common form of dualism has annihilated (and still does) an infinite amount of great ideas. The formula:
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TUNING THE WRITING MIND
When your mind is going a mile or a kilometer a second, it can be helpful to pace down.
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